plagose

comparative more plagose · superlative most plagose

1. datedrareFond of flogging.

   Now Mary Langton was the only one her grandfather ever petted; whence Miss Harriet's plagose propensity.

   1868, Mortimer Collins, Sweet Anne Page, page 23

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   Other boys from other schools used to relate their experiences with plagose headmasters and describe how, by laying a hair from a horse's tail across your palm, you could outwit or at least diminish the sting of the cane.

   1969, Robert Lynd, The peal of bells, page 131