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jab
English
Etymology
Originally a Scottish (unclear if Scots or Scottish English) form of English job (“peck, poke, thrust”), from Middle English jobben.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?æb/
- Rhymes: -æb
Noun
jab (plural jabs)
- A quick stab or blow; a poking or thrusting motion.
- 1952, Bernard Malamud, The Natural, Chapter 9,
- He tore in for the ball, make a running jab for it and held it.
- 1952, Bernard Malamud, The Natural, Chapter 9,
- (boxing) A short straight punch.
- (Britain) A medical hypodermic injection (vaccination or inoculation)
- Our dog was exposed to rabies, so the whole family went to a clinic to get our jabs.
- (Britain, Australia) A vaccination, whether or not delivered via conventional injection.
- (US, figuratively) A mild verbal insult.
Derived terms
- jabby
Translations
Verb
jab (third-person singular simple present jabs, present participle jabbing, simple past and past participle jabbed)
- To poke or thrust abruptly, or to make such a motion.
- To deliver a quick punch.
- (slang, Britain) To give someone an injection
Translations
References
Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “jab”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Irish
Etymology
Borrowed from English job.
Noun
jab m (genitive singular jab, nominative plural jabanna)
- job, piece of work
- post, employment
Declension
Derived terms
- jabaire m (“(cattle-)jobber”)
References
- "jab" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English jab.
Noun
jab m (invariable)
- jab (boxing punch)
Spanish
Noun
jab m (plural jabs)
- (boxing) jab
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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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