Associations to the word «Flogging»

Wiktionary

FLOGGING, noun. Infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping.
FLOGGING, verb. Present participle of flog

Dictionary definition

FLOGGING, noun. Beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope