different between flagger vs flogger

English

Etymology

flag +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æ??(r)

Noun

flagger (plural flaggers)

1. One who uses a flag or signal, as for example to direct traffic or to start a race.

English

Etymology

From flog +? -er.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

flogger (plural floggers)

1. One who flogs.
   • 1964, Donald Lemen Clark, John Milton at St. Paul's School

     The High Masters were as shrewd floggers as any.

2. 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.
3. (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.

Translations