flogger
/ˈflɒɡə
/noun
1A person who whips or flogs another.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....
- 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.
2British informal A person who sells something.But the certified financial planners were more like 'certified floggers of products'....
- There's page after page of advertisements in our Sunday papers for property floggers and it's all Brisbane and the Gold Coast.
- Assorted whistle sellers, hot-dog vendors and T-shirt floggers stalked the crowd.
3 (also flogging brush) A brush used in interior decorating to give a marbled or woodgrain effect.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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