different between clogger vs flogger

English

clog +? -er

clogger (plural cloggers)

One who, or that which, clogs.
A maker of the shoes called clogs.
(soccer, slang) A physically aggressive player.
- 2010, Ellis Cashmore, Making Sense of Sports (page 314)
  The sport has always been tough, of course; but [Fifa] became concerned that the pre-eminent teams were those that employed particularly physical players, whose specialty was intimidation. This had commercial implications, though they were never spelled out: if the finesse players were succumbing to the “cloggers” as they were known (“clog” meaning to impede or hamper), then the shape of the sport would change fundamentally, skill being replaced by a more robust style of play in which only the strong would survive.
- 2017, Roger Hannah, The School of Hard Knox: The Autobiography of Archie Knox
  […] I was normally not able to – unless I fouled him – and I usually did. I think from that time Archie reckoned I was a bit of a clogger and I didn't have Dad's or Archie's skills.

From flog +? -er.

flogger (plural floggers)

One who flogs.
- 1964, Donald Lemen Clark, John Milton at St. Paul's School
  The High Masters were as shrewd floggers as any.
A whip.
- 1866, Tresham Gilbey, Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (volume 11, page 163)
  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.
1. (BDSM) A lightweight whip with multiple lashes.
(theater) A handle with strips of cloth attached, used for beating away charcoal dust etc.
- 2012, Susan Crabtree, ?Peter Beudert, Scenic Art for the Theatre: History, Tools and Techniques (page 303)
  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.

Send