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noun
A contemptible, often arrogant person; a wanker.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, derogatory, informal
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A weblog designed to look authentic, but actually developed as part of a commercial marketing strategy to promote some product or service.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To whip or scourge as punishment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: lash, thrash, belt, birch, cut, feague, flagellate, flog, knout, lather, quirt, scourge, scutch, slash, strap, stripe, thresh, whip, whoop, yark
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To use something to extreme; to abuse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To sell.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, slang, transitive
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Synonyms: hawk, peddle, cheap, flog, monger, retail, sell, vend
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To steal something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, New-Zealand, transitive
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Synonyms: loot, purloin, steal, abduct, abstract, appropriate, bag, bandit, bash and grab, bone, boost, burgle, burglarize, borrow, cheat, chore, commandeer, confiscate, convert, cop, cozen, crib, embezzle, filch, fleece, flog, gaffle, gilravage, half-inch, heave, heist, jack, kidnap, knock off, kipe, kyper, liberate, lift, make off with, mill, misappropriate, mooch, moonlight requisition, nick, nip, own, peculate, pickpocket, pilfer, pinch, pillage, pirate, plunder, poach, pocket, prig, raid, ransack, rape, relieve, reave, rip, rip off, rob, run off with, snag, snatch, sniggle, snitch, swindle, swipe, thieve, walk off with
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To defeat easily or convincingly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, New-Zealand, transitive
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Synonyms: beat, thrash, bring down, convince, chew up, eat someone for breakfast, eat someone's lunch, flog, humble, kick ass, malavogue, murdelize, outfox, outguess, outrun, outsmart, outwit, overcome, overpower, overwin, own, pulverise, pwn, rape, reduce, spank, steal the show, subdue, subvert, surmount, trounce, vanquish
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To overexploit (land), as by overgrazing, overstocking, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, transitive
Topics: agriculture, business, lifestyle
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verb
To beat away charcoal dust etc. using a flogger.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, theater
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verb
beat severely with a whip or rod
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: beat, beat up, work over
Narrower terms: flagellate, scourge, leather, horsewhip, switch, cowhide, cat, birch
verb
beat with a cane
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: cane, lambaste, lambast
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: beat, beat up, work over
History
From Middle English *floggen (suggested by flogge (“hammer, sledge”), from Old English *floggian, a stem variant of Proto-Germanic *flukkōną (“to beat”), itself a secondary zero-grade iterative with unetymological -u-, derived from *flōkaną. The original zero-grade iterative *flakkōną had been misinterpreted as an o-grade. See flack (“to beat”), also as a dialectal noun "a blow, slap". Cognate with Scots flog (“a blow, stripe, flogging”, noun), Scots flog (“thin strip of wood”), Norwegian flak (“a piece torn off, strip”). Alternatively, a back-formation from flogger, from Low German flogger (“a flail”).
Blend of fake + blog.
Across languages
63 source translations are retained for this English entry.
