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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)

  1. 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.
  2. (boxing) A short straight punch.
  3. (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.
  4. (Britain, Australia) A vaccination, whether or not delivered via conventional injection.
  5. (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)

  1. To poke or thrust abruptly, or to make such a motion.
  2. To deliver a quick punch.
  3. (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)

  1. job, piece of work
  2. 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)

  1. jab (boxing punch)

Spanish

Noun

jab m (plural jabs)

  1. (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)

  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

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