flog

Meanings

Verb

• To whip or scourge as punishment.
• To use something to extreme; to abuse.
• To sell.
• To steal something.
• To defeat easily or convincingly.
• To overexploit (land), as by overgrazing, overstocking, etc.
• To beat away charcoal dust etc. using a flogger.

Noun

• A contemptible, often arrogant person; a wanker.
• A weblog designed to look authentic, but actually developed as part of a commercial marketing strategy to promote some product or service.

Related

Similar words

• spamblog
• splog

Origin

• From Middle English *floggen (suggested by flogge, from Old English *floggian, a stem variant of Proto-Germanic *flukkōną ("to beat"), itself a secondary zero-grade iterative with unetymological -u-, derived from *flōkaną. The original zero-grade iterative *flakkōną had been misinterpreted as an o-grade. See flack, also as a dialectal noun "a blow, slap". Cognate with Scots flog, Scots flog, Norwegian flak.
• Alternatively, a , from Low German flogger.