flogging

Infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping.

Adjective

  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? - 1955, D'Arcy Niland, The Shiralee, Sydney, page 122:

    Synonyms: flipping freaking fricking frigging fugging

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. - 1991, Alan Wood, “Russia’s ‘Wild East’: exile,...

    Synonyms: whipping flagellation scourging

Forms

floggings

Derived

Florentine flogging

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of flog

Related

birching caning lashing scourging