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flogging

noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈflɒɡɪŋ/

adj

  1. 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?

noun

  1. 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.

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of flog