flogging — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. Infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping.

   Gebrauch

   • zählbar
   • nicht zählbar

   Synonyme

   whippingflagellationscourging

   Beispiele

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

   Weitere Beispiele (1)

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

Adjektiv

1. A minced oath of "fucking" as an intensifier.

   Gebrauch

   • Australia
   • umgangssprachlich
   • euphemistic
   • not-comparable

   Synonyme

   flippingfreakingfrickingfriggingfugging

   Beispiele

   Will you get out of the flogging bathroom? We're already running late.

   Cripes, this floggin’ rain’d make you cry, wouldn’t it?

Substantiv

1. beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment

   Synonyme

   whippingtanninglashingflagellation

   Oberbegriffe

   beatingthrashinglickingdrubbinglacingtrouncingwhacking