flogging meaning: definition, quotations

flogging

noun

/ˈflɒɡɪŋ/

Infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping.

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

adj

Australia, Colloquial, Euphemistic A minced oath of "fucking" as an intensifier.

Will you get out of the flogging bathroom? We're already running late.
Cripes, this floggin’ rain’d make you cry, wouldn’t it?1955, D'Arcy Niland, The Shiralee, Sydney, page 122: