Plagose

Origin

Latin plagosus. See plague.

Full definition of plagose

Adjective

1. Fond of flogging.
• 1868, Mortimer Collins, Sweet Anne Page (page 23)Now Mary Langton was the only one her grandfather ever petted; whence Miss Harriet's plagose propensity.
• 1969, Robert Lynd, The peal of bells (page 131)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.