flogger

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
15
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/flɒɡə/(UK)
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/flɒɡə/(UK) · /flɑɡɚ/(US)

Definition of flogger

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. One who flogs.
    “How could the flogger of urchins be otherwise than animated and joyous?”
    “The High Masters were as shrewd floggers as any.”
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noun

  1. One who flogs.
    “How could the flogger of urchins be otherwise than animated and joyous?”
    “The High Masters were as shrewd floggers as any.”
  2. A whip.
    “But the "Sac" party imagines that if the boy had not dropped his whip, their horse would have won, for he was so partial to his flogger, that the Treasure in all probability would have stopped to it, and Custance been just enabled to do him.”
  3. A whip.
    “Savanna walked around the stock, unhooking her flogger from her belt.”
  4. A handle with strips of cloth attached, used for beating away charcoal dust etc.
    “Schlepitchka is a texturing trick done by twirling a feather duster or flogger around gently and dabbing it on the surface of the scenery between each twirl of the tool so that the splayed pattern prints on the scenery.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From flog + -er. Compare Low German flogger (“a flail”).

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