Meaning of plagose | Babel Free

Definitions

Fond of flogging.

dated, rare

Examples

“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.”

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