different between chastise vs flog

English

Alternative forms

• chastize (archaic in British English and rare in American English)

Etymology

From Old French chastier, from Latin castigo. See also the doublets chasten and castigate and cf. also chaste.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t?æ?sta?z/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?æsta?z/, /t?æ?sta?z/
• Rhymes: -a?z

Verb

chastise (third-person singular simple present chastises, present participle chastising, simple past and past participle chastised)

1. To punish (someone), especially by corporal punishment.
   • 1809, Flavius Josephus, The first eleven books of the Antiquities of the Jews, with a table of the Jewish coins, weights and measures, page 402:

     and if his father had chastised them with whips, they must expect that he would do it with scorpions.

   • 2018, Nyx Smith, Shadowrun Legends: Striper Assassin, Catalyst Game Labs

     “There is a man who must be chastised,” she says softly, lightly. “Chastised in a physical way. It should not be difficult. Not for you.”

2. To castigate; to severely scold or censure (someone).
3. To lightly criticize or correct (someone).
   • 2002, Eric Porter, What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists, Univ of California Press (?ISBN), page 50:

     While Ellington voiced praise and respect for Benny Goodman and some white bandleaders, he gently chastised others for profiting from “musical-simplification to the 'nth' degree” and “reach[ing] a pleasing musical middle.”

   • 2011, Patricia Colton, The Window Blind, AuthorHouse (?ISBN), page 496:

     “You're not insensitive,” she lightly chastised. “I love you.” “Love you too.”

   • 2017, Ava Stone, A Scandalous Ruse:

     “Greg,” she lightly chastised. “You're not supposed to move your lips.” “Yes, I know. I'm a horrible subject. But do answer the question, Bella.”

   • 2019, Eliza Ellis, Hers to Kiss, Eliza Ellis

     “You could've trusted me,” Pete gently chastised. “I can handle it.” He sat on the edge of her bed. “I was afraid to, honey. I know how stressed you've been with the camp […] ”

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:reprehend

Translations

See also

• punish
• castigate

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fl??/
• Rhymes: -??
• (US) IPA^(key): /fl??/

Etymology 1

From unattested Old English *floggian, a stem variant of Proto-Germanic *flukk?n? (“to beat”), itself a secondary zero-grade iterative with unetymological -u-, derived from *fl?kan?. The original zero-grade iterative *flakk?n? had been misinterpreted as an o-grade. See flack (“to beat”), also as a dialectal noun "a blow, slap".

Verb

flog (third-person singular simple present flogs, present participle flogging, simple past and past participle flogged)

1. (transitive) To whip or scourge as punishment.
2. (transitive) To use something to extreme; to abuse.
3. (transitive, Britain, slang) To sell.
4. (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To steal something.
5. (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To defeat easily or convincingly.
6. (transitive, agriculture) To exploit.
7. (theater) To beat away charcoal dust etc. using a flogger.

Synonyms

• (to whip or scourge): Thesaurus:whip

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

flog (plural flogs)

1. (Australia, informal, derogatory) A contemptible, often arrogant person.

See also

• flail
• flay
• vapulate

Etymology 2

Blend of fake +? blog

Noun

flog (plural flogs)

1. (Internet slang) A weblog designed to look authentic, but actually developed as part of a commercial marketing strategy to promote some product or service.
   • 2008, Lucas Conley, OBD: Obsessive Branding Disorder

     Though a handful of viral videos and flogs have captured significant interest, the vast majority hardly register with consumers.

   • 2009, Nico Carpentier, Benjamin De Cleen, Participation and Media Production: Critical Reflections on Content Creation (page 33)

     An element more problematic […] in the move of corporate communications and practices online is the sometimes masked nature of such initiatives, for example through blogola and flogs.

   • 2010, Beata Klimkiewicz, Media Freedom and Pluralism

     […] hidden advertising and flogs (the use of “personal blogs” for unfair commercial and political purposes), […]

Synonyms

• spamblog
• splog

References

Anagrams

• GLOF, golf

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flo?k/

Verb

flog

1. past tense of fliegen

Icelandic

Etymology

Doublet (showing a-mutation) of flug (“flight; cliff”), from Old Norse flog, flug (“flight; cliff; an illness of the head”), from Proto-Germanic *flug?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fl???/
• Rhymes: -???

Noun

flog n (genitive singular flogs, nominative plural flog)

1. (obsolete, poetic) flight (the act of flying)
2. seizure (sudden attack [of an illness], convulsion, e.g. an epileptic seizure)
3. seizure (sudden onset of pain)

Declension

Related terms

• flogaveiki

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse flog.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flo??/

Noun

flog n (definite singular floget, indefinite plural flog, definite plural floga)

1. a flight (the act of flying)
2. a steep drop, near vertical cliff

References

• “flog” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Volapük

Noun

flog (nominative plural flogs)

1. flake

Declension

Welsh

Pronunciation

• • IPA^(key): /vl??/

Noun

flog

1. Soft mutation of blog.

Mutation