flogging

plural floggings

1. countableuncountableInfliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping.

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

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

   1991, Alan Wood, “Russia’s ‘Wild East’: exile, vagrancy and crime in nineteenth-century Siberia”, in Alan Wood, editor, The History of Siberia: From Russian Conquest to Revolution, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 124

   Synonyms: whipping, flagellation, scourging

1. Australiacolloquialeuphemisticnot comparableA minced oath of "fucking" as an intensifier.

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

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

   1955, D'Arcy Niland, The Shiralee, Sydney, page 122

   Synonyms: flipping, freaking, fricking, frigging, fugging

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of flog