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flogworthy

adj

Etymology

From flog + -worthy.

  1. borrowed from flogger — “a flail”
  2. inherited from *flukkōną✻
  3. inherited from *floggian✻
  4. inherited from *floggen✻
  5. suffixed as flogworthy — “flog + worthy”

Definitions

  1. Worthy of flogging or to be flogged

    Worthy of flogging or to be flogged; (by extension) deserving of punishment; punishable.

    • Mr. Marples with drunken motorists, Sir David Eccles with middle-class undergraduates, Mr. Vosper with flogworthy delinquents, Mr. Macleod with defederating Rhodesians, [...]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA