"flog" Definition

Definitions for the word "flog" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. v. t.
To beat or strike with a rod or whip; to whip; to lash; to chastise with repeated blows.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v.
(-gg-) 1 a beat with a whip, stick, etc. B make work through violent effort (flogged the engine). 2 (often foll. By off) slang sell. flog a dead horse waste one''s efforts. Flog to death colloq. Talk about or promote at tedious length. [origin unknown]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
3. slang
to whip. Cited both by Grose and the author of _Bacchus and Venus_ as a cant word. Many efforts have been made to ascertain the earliest use; Richardson cites Lord Chesterfield. From _Flagellum_. “Flawged,” for whipped, occurs in “The Presbyterian Lash, or Nockhoff’s Maid Whipt,” published in 1663. Nockhoff was the anagram for the name of the Rev. Zachary Crofton, who had scandalized the town by subjecting his servant-maid to the discipline of the nursery. There is a good story on the proper orthography of the convertible term for castigation related in a newspaper of 1841. A county magistrate, who had sentenced a boy to be birched, wrote in his warrant that the boy was to be “floged.” The scrupulous gaoler hesitated to inflict the punishment, and sent back the warrant to the justice for amendment, who thereupon drew his pen through “floged,” and ordered the boy to be “wiped.”
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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