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flog, v.|flɒg|
[Mentioned in 1676 as a cant word. Presumably of onomatopœic formation; cf. flack, flap; if it originated in school slang, it may have been suggested by L. flagellare.]
1. a. trans. To beat, whip; to chastise with repeated blows of a rod or whip.
1676Coles, Flog, to whip [marked as a cant word]. 1740Christm. Entertainm. ii. (1883) 10 Then I was as certainly flogged. 1784Cowper Tiroc. 329 How he was flogged, or had the luck to escape. 1809Byron Let. to Hodgson 25 June, The women are flogged at the cart's tail. 1830Marryat King's Own i, A man sentenced to be flogged round the fleet receives an equal part of the whole number of lashes awarded alongside each ship composing that fleet. 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xxxiii, Tom shall have the pleasure of flogging her. 1881Besant & Rice Chapl. Fleet I. 49 Is it not barbarous to flog our soldiers and sailors for insubordination?
absol.1727Swift Molly Mog iv, The School-Master's joy is to flog. 1887L. Stephen in Dict. Nat. Biog. XI. 303 Boyer flogged pitilessly.
b. Const. into, out of, through.
1830Gentl. Mag. Jan. 56/2 Providence flogged him [Richter] into contentment. 1852Smedley L. Arundel i. 19, I have not forgotten the Greek and Latin flogged into us at Westminster. 1886J. Westby-Gibson in Dict. Nat. Biog. VI. 42/1 What he knew of mathematics he was ‘flogged through’. 1887Hall Caine Coleridge i. 21 I'll flog your infidelity out of you!
c. To urge forward (a horse, etc.) by flogging. Also fig. (In early 19th c. to urge on by importunity, etc.) Also (freq. intr.) in slang use: (i) to proceed by violent or painful effort; (ii) to obtain, usu. by violent effort.
1793Spirit Pub. Jrnls. (1799) I. 111 Two of the largest [turkeys]..were flogged up into the boot of a mail-coach. 1800I. Milner in Life xii. (1842) 220, I was flogged by good Richardson..to let him have the Life. 1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) II. xvi, To flog yourself up into an inclination to work in your garden. 1841James Brigand iii, Take off the bridles of their horses, and flog them down the valley. 1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 96 To flog,..to walk; go on foot.—e.g., ‘There was no train so we flogged it.’ 1936Geogr. Jrnl. LXXXVII. 166 We had to flog our way through snow up to our waists. 1943N. Coward Middle East Diary 26 Aug. (1964) 64 Visualised himself flogging through the provinces in Shakespearian Rep. indefinitely. 1959B. Goolden For Richer, for Poorer viii. 121 A sports model out of which they could flog eighty with ease. 1964Times 11 Feb. 11/6 [Lorry drivers] are being encouraged to ‘flog on’ even in bad weather.
d. fig. in phrases, to flog the glass (see quot.); to flog the clock, to move the hands forward; to flog a dead horse: see horse n. 19.
1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789), Manger du sable, to flog the glass, or cheat the glass; expressed of the steersman, who turns the watch-glasses before they have run out, in order to shorten the period of his watch. 1894Daily Chron. 4 Aug. 3/5, I got suspicious that it [the clock] was being flogged—that is, altered—in the interest of making the time of those in the mate's watch shorter.
2. fig.
a. slang. To ‘beat’, excel.
b. dial. in pass. To tire (out.) Cf. dead-beat A.
a1841T. Hook (Ogilv.) Good cherry-bounce flogs all the foreign trash in the world. 1847Le Fanu T. O'Brien 253 Of all the brimstone spawn that I ever came across that same she-devil flogs them. 1875Sussex Gloss. s.v., I was fairly flogged by the time I got home. 1883E. A. Freeman in Stephens Life & Lett. (1895) II. 274, I think for position it flogs every place I know. 1924Kipling Debits & Credits (1926) 132, I went to bed; for I was fair flogged out.
c. slang (orig. Mil.). To sell or offer for sale, orig. illicitly.
1919[Implied in flogging vbl. n. 2 d.]. 1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 96 To flog, to sell something not the vendor's own to dispose of. 1951G. Hanley Consul at Sunset 125 He was dead... His kit was collected and flogged to those who would buy it in the mess. 1966J. Porter Sour Cream x. 134 Filching state property and flogging it to the eager populace is a common enough crime in the Soviet Union as it was with us during the war. 1967M. Drabble Jerusalem the Golden v. 112 Let's go..and look at the ghastly thing that Martin flogged us.
3. a. In general sense: To beat, lash, strike; also with down. Fishing. To cast the fly-line over (a stream) repeatedly; also absol. Cricketing. To ‘punish’ (bowling).
1801Wolcott (P. Pind.), Tears and Smiles Wks. 1812 V. 44 As schoolboys flog a top. 1837Marryat Dog-fiend v, The vessel so flogged by the waves. 1853Herschel Pop. Lect. Sc. i. §23 (1873) 17 Trees were seen to flog the ground with their branches. 1859Jephson Brittany v. 56 Trout streams, which have not yet been flogged by cockneys. 1867F. Francis Angling ix. (1880) 327 A salmon bullied into rising by a customer who..kept flogging on. 1884I. Blyth in Lillywhite's Cricket Ann. 8 Bonnor..flogged the bowling to the extent of 54. 1892Whymper Great Andes iii. 68 The only possible way of proceeding was to flog every yard of it [the snow] down.
b. intr. Of a sail: To beat or flap heavily.
1839Marryat Phant. Ship xxii, The storm-staysail..flogged and cracked with a noise louder than the gale.
4. Comb., as flog-master, a prison flogger.
1702T. Brown Lett. Dead to Living Wks. 1760 II. 205 Busby was never a greater terror to a blockhead, or the Bridewell flog-master to a night-walking strumpet.
Hence flogged, ˈflogging ppl. adjs.
1682[see flauging]. 1836Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) IV. 99 Keeping us what Mr. Cobbett denominated ‘a flogged people’. 1884Athenæum 19 July 75/3 He undergoes brutal treatment from a flogging master. 1891Sat. Rev. 21 Mar. 343/2 The blood of flogged boys. |