flogging — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. Infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping.

   Uso

   • numerabile
   • non numerabile

   Sinonimi

   whippingflagellationscourging

   Esempi

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

   Altri esempi (1)

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

Aggettivo

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

   Uso

   • Australia
   • colloquiale
   • euphemistic
   • not-comparable

   Sinonimi

   flippingfreakingfrickingfriggingfugging

   Esempi

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

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

Sostantivo

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

   Sinonimi

   whippingtanninglashingflagellation

   Termini più generali

   beatingthrashinglickingdrubbinglacingtrouncingwhacking