flogging

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɒɡɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡɪŋ

Noun

flogging (countable and uncountable, plural floggings)

1. Infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping.

   Synonyms: whipping, flagellation, scourging

   What lawbreakers like that need is a good flogging. Do that and watch the crime rate plummet.

   • 1991, Alan Wood, The History of Siberia: from Russian conquest to revolution:

     However, brutal floggings, increased terms of katorga, starvation diets, permanent chaining to a wheelbarrow and other fearsome sanctions failed to staunch the flow.

Derived terms

• Florentine flogging

Translations

infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping

• Albanian: fshikullim (sq) m
• Armenian: ծեծ (hy) (cec)

  Old Armenian: գան (gan)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鞭打 (zh) (biāndǎ)

• Finnish: ruoskinta
• French: flagellation (fr) f
• Georgian: გამათრახება (gamatraxeba), გაწკეპლვა (gac̣ḳeṗlva), გაროზგვა (garozgva), ფლაგელაცია (plagelacia)
• German: Auspeitschung (de) f
• Hungarian: ostorozás (hu), korbácsolás (hu), vesszőzés, megostorozás, megkorbácsolás (hu), megvesszőzés
• Italian: fustigazione (it) f, flagellazione (it) f
• Japanese: 鞭打ち (ja) (むちうち, muchiuchi)
• Norman: chîngneuse f
• Polish: chłosta (pl) f
• Portuguese: açoitamento m, açoutamento m
• Russian: по́рка (ru) f (pórka)
• Spanish: azotamiento m
• Swedish: prygel (sv) n, aga (sv) c
• Turkish: kamçılama (tr), kırbaçlama

Verb

flogging

1. present participle and gerund of flog

See also

• birching
• caning
• lashing
• scourging