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单词 flogger
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Definition of flogger in English:

flogger

noun ˈflɒɡəˈflɑɡər
  • 1A person who whips or flogs another.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • As U-turns go, it makes the recent conversion of that MP from hanger and flogger to the acceptable face of breakfast TV seem inconsequential.
    • The usual hangers and floggers on the right will no doubt take the view that our first priority must always be the victim.
    • She distances herself from "hangers and floggers" and, remarkably, says that she wants her husband's killer to lead a "fulfilled" life.
    • Like the sadistic Victorian flogger telling his victim that ‘this hurts me more than it hurts you’, Moll is - if we follow this line of explanation - a double-dyed hypocrite.
    • While I am the original flogger of dead horses, some anguish just ain't worth it.
    • He was headmaster of Oundle School between 1718 and 1722, where he acquired the reputation of a keen flogger.
  • 2British informal A person who sells something.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Assorted whistle sellers, hot-dog vendors and T-shirt floggers stalked the crowd.
    • But the certified financial planners were more like 'certified floggers of products'.
    • "A new age in digital security and online identity verification" say the makers/floggers of this little device.
    • Most people who visit Fun Town expect to be able to sit quietly at an outside beer boozer and be pestered around 800 times an hour by the forlorn multitude of watch sellers, shoe shiners, cigarette floggers, carpet baggers, flower peddlers, photo snappers and others too numerous to mention.
    • The floggers of this e-book claim "The shocking truth is that it's not really about talent, which opens the door for almost anyone to get selected with the right preparation and know how!"
    • There's page after page of advertisements in our Sunday papers for property floggers and it's all Brisbane and the Gold Coast.
  • 3A brush used in interior decorating to give a marbled or woodgrain effect.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Hold a flogging brush at 90 degrees to the surface and firmly push the bristles into the wet wash.
    • I then brushed on dark-blue oil glaze, and dragged a flogging brush through it to expose the underlying paint.

Rhymes

dogger, Hoggar, hogger, jogger, logger, slogger, Wagga Wagga
 
 

Definition of flogger in US English:

flogger

nounˈflɑɡərˈfläɡər
  • 1A person who whips or flogs another.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The usual hangers and floggers on the right will no doubt take the view that our first priority must always be the victim.
    • While I am the original flogger of dead horses, some anguish just ain't worth it.
    • He was headmaster of Oundle School between 1718 and 1722, where he acquired the reputation of a keen flogger.
    • As U-turns go, it makes the recent conversion of that MP from hanger and flogger to the acceptable face of breakfast TV seem inconsequential.
    • She distances herself from "hangers and floggers" and, remarkably, says that she wants her husband's killer to lead a "fulfilled" life.
    • Like the sadistic Victorian flogger telling his victim that ‘this hurts me more than it hurts you’, Moll is - if we follow this line of explanation - a double-dyed hypocrite.
  • 2British informal A person who sells something.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • "A new age in digital security and online identity verification" say the makers/floggers of this little device.
    • Assorted whistle sellers, hot-dog vendors and T-shirt floggers stalked the crowd.
    • Most people who visit Fun Town expect to be able to sit quietly at an outside beer boozer and be pestered around 800 times an hour by the forlorn multitude of watch sellers, shoe shiners, cigarette floggers, carpet baggers, flower peddlers, photo snappers and others too numerous to mention.
    • There's page after page of advertisements in our Sunday papers for property floggers and it's all Brisbane and the Gold Coast.
    • But the certified financial planners were more like 'certified floggers of products'.
    • The floggers of this e-book claim "The shocking truth is that it's not really about talent, which opens the door for almost anyone to get selected with the right preparation and know how!"
  • 3A brush used in interior decorating to give a marbled or woodgrain effect.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I then brushed on dark-blue oil glaze, and dragged a flogging brush through it to expose the underlying paint.
    • Hold a flogging brush at 90 degrees to the surface and firmly push the bristles into the wet wash.
 
 
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