flogging

UK /ˈflɒɡɪŋ/ US /ˈflɒɡɪŋ/

noun 1adj 1

Definitions

noun

Infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping.

What lawbreakers like that need is a good flogging. Do that and watch the crime rate plummet.

However, brutal floggings, increased terms of katorga, starvation diets, permanent chaining to a wheelbarrow and other fearsome sanctions failed to staunch the flow.

adj

A minced oath of "fucking" as an intensifier.

Will you get out of the flogging bathroom? We're already running late.

Cripes, this floggin’ rain’d make you cry, wouldn’t it?

Collocations

ADJ.

all, considered, dead, good, great, trying

VERB + FLOGGING

died, like, spanking

FLOGGING + NOUN

bathroom, furniture, stories, we're

PREP.

during, in, off, on, out

ADV.

already, ever

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

What lawbreakers like that need is a good flogging. Do that and watch the crime rate plummet.

Wiktionary

However, brutal floggings, increased terms of katorga, starvation diets, permanent chaining to a wheelbarrow and other fearsome sanctions failed to staunch the flow.

Wiktionary

Will you get out of the flogging bathroom? We're already running late.

Wiktionary

Cripes, this floggin’ rain’d make you cry, wouldn’t it?

Wiktionary

There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

Tatoeba · #411126

You're flogging a dead horse.

Tatoeba · #5787428

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, flogging is marked as colloquial, euphemistic. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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