Flog vs Shove - What's the difference?
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To whip or scourge someone or something as punishment.
To use something to extreme; to abuse.
* {{quote-newsgroup
, title=VL idles rough when warm...
, group=aus.cars
, author=Chris Wardrop
, date=October 30
, year=2002
, passage=I did seven laps of Fyshwick with the mechanic today. I was turning lots of heads on the last few, people must of thought I was nuts, flogging' the car then stopping, then driving slow then ' flogging it again.
(UK) To sell something.
* {{quote-newsgroup
, title=Optus $5/month 5110, T10 and 2288 only 4 days
, group=aus.comms.mobile
, author=Paul Edwards
, date=January 26
, year=2001
, passage=And then there's my part time job at Telstra Bigpond flogging' their cable network for just $67.55/month long term cost, a BARGAIN, and the other part time job ' flogging Foxtel at something like $50/month.
(transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To steal something.
(transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To defeat easily or convincingly.
* {{quote-newsgroup
, title=Nothing to Crow About
, group=rec.sport.football.australian
, author=Mr Ripper
, date=August 16
, year=1999
, passage=The Swannies got on a real roll over rounds 16/17 & 18 of 1987. In consecutive SCG matches, they flogged the Eags 30.21 to 10.11, followed that with a 36.20 to 11.7 demolition of the Dons and finally a 31.12 to 15.17 thrashing of Richmond.
* {{quote-newsgroup
, title=Eng v Aus 1977
, group=aus.sport.cricket
, author=Cas.
, date=June 9
, year=2001
, passage=Anyone with cable watch this on ESPN "History of Cricket" last night? Australia got flogged by an innings in the fourth test.
* {{quote-newsgroup
, title=POLISER- Roosters v Bulldogs
, group=aus.sport.rugby-league
, author=Greg Vincent }:c{
, date=June 5
, year=2004
, passage=It'll make the Raiders look good. Getting flogged' by a team that got '''flogged''' by a team that got ' flogged by the Bulldogs.
(agriculture) To exploit.
*
To push, especially roughly or with force.
*, chapter=12
, title= To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off .
* Garth
To make an all-in bet.
(label) To pass (counterfeit money).
A rough push.
* Jonathan Swift
(poker slang) An all-in bet.
Flog is a related term of shove.
As verbs the difference between flog and shove
is that flog is (flyga) while shove is to push, especially roughly or with force.As a noun shove is
a rough push.flog
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Verb
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Synonyms
* (to whip or scourge) whipDerived terms
* flog a dead horse * flogger * flog the logSee also
* flail * flay * vapulateAnagrams
* golf ----shove
English
Verb
(shov)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all}}
- He grasped the oar, received his guests on board, and shoved from shore.
Derived terms
* shover * shove off * shove-it * push and shove * shove ha'pennyNoun
(en noun)- I rested and then gave the boat another shove .
