Synonyms for flogging

Grammar : Noun

Spell : flog, flawg

Phonetic Transcription : flɒg, flɔg

Définition of flogging

Origin : 1670s, slang, perhaps a schoolboy shortening of Latin flagellare "flagellate." Related: Flogged; flogging.

noun lashing

Example sentences :

First you must have a flogging for having told an untruth, then we will see to the rest.
Extract from : « The Imaginary Invalid » by Molire

Fortunately for him the poor fellow died as a consequence of the flogging.
Extract from : « Captain Blood » by Rafael Sabatini

"You want a flogging, that's what you do;" said a parent to his unruly son.
Extract from : « The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; » by Various

I dont value a flogging a straw, nor do I regard a spatting a hair.
Extract from : « The Comic Latin Grammar » by Percival Leigh

Taxation, like flogging in the army, never comes on the right part of the back.
Extract from : « Nuts and Nutcrackers » by Charles James Lever

Once I passed a chaise with a flogging post-boy and steaming nags.
Extract from : « The O'Ruddy » by Stephen Crane

Ye may luik for a flogging if I don't get it, and a daily flogging till I do.
Extract from : « Despair's Last Journey » by David Christie Murray

"It would do me good to give him a flogging," said Aaron Bickford.
Extract from : « The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus » by Horatio Alger Jr.

But the most delightful of all Boer customs was the custom of flogging by pipes.
Extract from : « History of the Moravian Church » by J. E. Hutton

Guilty or not guilty, it is enough to be accused, to be sure of a flogging.
Extract from : « My Bondage and My Freedom » by Frederick Douglass

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