Meanings
plural floggers
- One who flogs.
The High Masters were as shrewd floggers as any.
1964, Donald Lemen Clark, John Milton at St. Paul's School1 more example
How could the flogger of urchins be otherwise than animated and joyous?
1820, Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - A whip.
But the "Sac" party imagines that if the boy had not dropped his whip, their horse would have won, for he was so partial to his flogger, that the Treasure in all probability would have stopped to it, and Custance been just enabled to do him.
1866, Tresham Gilbey, Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, volume 11, page 163- BDSMA lightweight whip with multiple lashes.
Savanna walked around the stock, unhooking her flogger from her belt.
2005, Savanna Samson, Vamp
- entertainmentA handle with strips of cloth attached, used for beating away charcoal dust etc.
Schlepitchka is a texturing trick done by twirling a feather duster or flogger around gently and dabbing it on the surface of the scenery between each twirl of the tool so that the splayed pattern prints on the scenery.
2012, Susan Crabtree, Peter Beudert, Scenic Art for the Theatre: History, Tools and Techniques, page 303
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna torturer who flogs or scourges (especially an official whose duty is to whip offenders)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From flog + -er. Compare Low German flogger (“a flail”).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Esperanto multrimenilo
- multrimenilolightweight whip
Finnish hapsupiiska
- hapsupiiskalightweight whip
French martinet
- martinetlightweight whip
Italian fustigatore, castigatore
- fustigatorelightweight whip
- castigatorelightweight whip
- flagellatorelightweight whip
Spanish zorros
- zorroslightweight whip
Cite this entry
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