Definition of Floggable

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Floggable

flocklings
flockly
flockmate
flockmates
flockmel
flocks
flocky
flocs
floe
floes
flog
flog a dead horse
floged
floggable (current term)
flogged
flogger
floggers
flogging
floggings
floging
flogs
flogworthy
flokati
flokatis
flone
flong
flongs

Literary usage of Floggable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1879)
"Sir W. HARCOURT was afraid it could not be dispensed with. But why should not the Secretary of State schedule floggable ..."

2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1875)
"Not to do this, not to "shirk," as it was called, was floggable. The logical character of this arrangement was exhibited every day in some such instance as ..."

3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1852)
"Not ' Young England,' not ' Young America,' but the whole young world of floggable age, ought to have grateful loins for this picturesque description. ..."

4. Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1880)
"it might be well to specify floggable offences, on active service as well as on board ship, and an assurance that a schedule with that view would be ..."

5. The Cromwellian settlement of Ireland by John Patrick Prendergast (1870)
"... made the inhabitants their serfs, taxable and floggable at their will, until it became a disgrace to be called an Englishman.1 The English peasantry, ..."

6. Ireland and the Making of Britain by Benedict Fitzpatrick (1921)
"To be English was to be a churl and a villein, a natural-born clod and criminal, taxable and floggable at will, so that "it was considered a disgrace to be ..."

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