wallop
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English wallopen (“gallop”), from Anglo-Norman [Term?], from Old Northern French walop (“gallop”, noun) and waloper (“to gallop”, verb) (compare Old French galoper, whence modern French galoper), from Frankish *wala hlaupan (“to run well”) from *wala (“well”) + *hlaupan (“to run”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną (“to run, leap, spring”), from Proto-Indo-European *klaub- (“to spring, stumble”). Possibly also derived from a deverbal of Frankish *walhlaup (“battle run”) from *wal (“battlefield”) from Proto-Germanic [Term?] (“dead, victim, slain”) from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“death in battle, killed in battle”) + *hlaup (“course, track”) from *hlaupan (“to run”). Compare the doublet gallop.
Inflected forms:
form: wallops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wollop
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: wallops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: walloping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: walloped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: walloped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: wollop
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A heavy blow, a punch.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: he gave him a mighty wallop
An' in the twentieth we stood in the middle of the ring an' exchanged wallops even.
gloss: A person's ability to throw such punches.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: this guy's got some wallop
gloss: An emotional impact, a psychological force.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: that film has some serious wallop
gloss: A thrill, an emotionally excited reaction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Anything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, or whitewash.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: "You're a gent," said the other, straightening his shoulders again. He appeared not to have noticed Winston's blue overalls. "Pint!" he added aggressively to the barman. "Pint of wallop."
gloss: A thick piece of fat.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: A quick rolling movement; a gallop.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
UK
countable
dialectal
uncountable
gloss: To rush hastily.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To flounder, wallow.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
pos: verb
examples: Oure affections boyle within vs, & wallop, frothing as a seething potte.
gloss: To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Tony got walloped round the face by Mike.
“It’s just like old times. Nearly walloped the life out of me to stop me going away, and now I come back he throws a confounded shovel at my head to keep me out. It grazed my shoulder.”
I've been timin' his rushes an' straight-leftin' him, an' meetin' his duck with a wicked little right upper-cut, an' he's shaken me on the jaw an' walloped my ears till my head's all singin' an' buzzin'.
The blizzard walloping the Northeast knocked down power lines and made roads impassable across Massachusetts on Monday, leaving hundreds of thousands without power and stranding vehicles across the state
Countries already walloped by a breakdown of the international trading order, war in Ukraine and chaotic U.S. policymaking are facing potentially lasting economic damage.
gloss: To trounce, beat by a wide margin.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The other side are bringing out their B-team, so we have to aim to completely wallop them.
gloss: To wrap up temporarily.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
pos: verb
examples: Saluting the far loin of his mare[…]with an energy that made all his accoutrements wallop.
The second act commenced, and the old-fashioned sixpenny waves of Drury did their best, and wallopped about, under a canvas blanket representing the sea, and dashed against the rocks and tall cliffs of the scene to admiration.
gloss: To eat or drink with gusto.
pos: verb
examples: St. Peter will befriend me then, Because my name is Peter too; I know him for the best of men That ever wallopped barley brew.
A greasy spoon café was found, big brekkies ordered and soon walloped down.
"Huh! Touch o' green was a fig-leaf, I s'pose—hope so, anyhow!" said Mrs. Botlisch, and "wallopped" down another oyster.
Derived words: codswallop
pack a wallop
walloper
walloping
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