Plagose vs Plaga - What's the difference?
plagose | plaga | Related terms |
Fond of flogging.
* 1868 , Mortimer Collins, Sweet Anne Page (page 23)
* 1969 , Robert Lynd, The peal of bells (page 131)
Plagose is a related term of plaga.
As an adjective plagose
is fond of flogging.As a noun plaga is
(zoology) a stripe of colour.plagose
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Now Mary Langton was the only one her grandfather ever petted; whence Miss Harriet's plagose propensity.
- Other boys from other schools used to relate their experiences with plagose headmasters and describe how, by laying a hair from a horse's tail across your palm, you could outwit or at least diminish the sting of the cane.