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flog
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)
- (transitive) To whip or scourge as punishment.
- (transitive) To use something to extreme; to abuse.
- (transitive, Britain, slang) To sell.
- (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To steal something.
- (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To defeat easily or convincingly.
- (transitive, agriculture) To exploit.
- (theater) To beat away charcoal dust etc. using a flogger.
Synonyms
- (to whip or scourge): Thesaurus:whip
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
flog (plural flogs)
- (Australia, informal, derogatory) A contemptible, often arrogant person.
See also
- flail
- flay
- vapulate
Etymology 2
Blend of fake +? blog
Noun
flog (plural flogs)
- (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), […]
- 2008, Lucas Conley, OBD: Obsessive Branding Disorder
Synonyms
- spamblog
- splog
References
Anagrams
- GLOF, golf
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /flo?k/
Verb
flog
- 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)
- (obsolete, poetic) flight (the act of flying)
- seizure (sudden attack [of an illness], convulsion, e.g. an epileptic seizure)
- 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)
- a flight (the act of flying)
- a steep drop, near vertical cliff
References
- “flog” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Volapük
Noun
flog (nominative plural flogs)
- flake
Declension
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vl??/
Noun
flog
- Soft mutation of blog.
Mutation
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quicken
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?kw?k?n/
- Rhymes: -?k?n
Etymology 1
From Middle English quikenen, equivalent to quick +? -en. Cognate Danish kvikne (“to quicken, revive”), Swedish kvickna (“to revive”), Icelandic kvikna (“to turn on, ignite”).
Verb
quicken (third-person singular simple present quickens, present participle quickening, simple past and past participle quickened)
- (transitive, literary) To give life to; to animate, make alive, revive. [from 14thc.]
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke XVII:
- Whosoever will goo about to save his lyfe, shall loose it: And whosoever shall loose his life, shall quycken it.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 3 scene 1
- The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead, / And makes my labours pleasures
- Like a fruitful garden without an hedge, that quickens the appetite to enjoy so tempting a prize.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke XVII:
- (intransitive, literary) To come back to life, receive life. [from 14th c.]
- (intransitive) To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be roused, excited. [from 15th c.]
- (intransitive) Of a pregnant woman: to first feel the movements of the foetus, or reach the stage of pregnancy at which this takes place; of a foetus: to begin to move. [from 16th c.]
- 2013, Hilary Mantel, ‘Royal Bodies’, London Review of Books, 35.IV:
- Royal pregnancies were not announced in those days; the news generally crept out, and public anticipation was aroused only when the child quickened.
- 2013, Hilary Mantel, ‘Royal Bodies’, London Review of Books, 35.IV:
- (transitive) To make quicker; to hasten, speed up. [from 17thc.]
- 2000, George RR Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam 2011, p.47:
- That day Arya quickened their pace, keeping the horses to a trot as long as she dared, and sometimes spurring to a gallop when she spied a flat stretch of field before them.
- 2000, George RR Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam 2011, p.47:
- (intransitive) To become faster. [from 17thc.]
- Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
- (shipbuilding) To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper.
Translations
Etymology 2
Apparently from quick, with uncertain final element.
Noun
quicken (plural quickens)
- (now chiefly Northern England) The European rowan, Sorbus aucuparia. [from 15th c.]
- 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not…, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p, 104:
- Miss Wannop moved off down the path: it was only suited for Indian file, and had on the left hand a ten-foot, untrimmed quicken hedge, the hawthorn blossoms just beginning to blacken […].
- 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not…, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p, 104:
Synonyms
- quickbeam
See also
- quickens
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
quicken
- inflection of quick:
- strong genitive masculine/neuter singular
- weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
- strong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
- strong dative plural
- weak/mixed all-case plural
Old Dutch
Etymology
From quic +? -en.
Verb
quicken
- to come to life
Inflection
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Middle Dutch: quicken
Further reading
- “kwikken”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
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