flogger

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a torturer who flogs or scourges (especially an official whose duty is to whip offenders)

From flog + -er. Compare Low German flogger (“a flail”).

Tempest was a mighty flogger of lads at Mountagu College. — Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais
How could the flogger of urchins be otherwise than animated and joyous? — The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving
The schoolmaster, nettled to find himself mistaken in his judgment, resolved that the Count should have no cause to exult in the discovery he had made, and, like a true flogger, actually whipped him for having allowed Fathom to copy his exercise. — The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete, T. (Tobias) Smollett

scourger

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