lounder
English edit
Etymology edit
From Scots.
Verb edit
lounder (third-person singular simple present lounders, present participle loundering, simple past and past participle loundered)
- (UK, dialectal, chiefly Northern England, archaic) To beat; to deal a heavy blow; to whack
- 1821, Sir Walter Scott, Tales of my Landlord: Old Mortality:
- "But Father," said Jenny, "if they come to lounder ilk ither as they did last time, suld na I cry on you?”
- 1893, Robert Louis Stevenson, Catriona:
- Why is all this shame loundered on my head?
- 1835, John Mackay Wilson, Wilson's Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative Tales:
- And they a' laughed thegither, and I up wi' the belt, and I loundered them round the house and round the house, till one screamed and another screamed, and even their mother got to squeel loudest.
Noun edit
lounder (plural lounders)
- (UK, dialectal, chiefly Northern England, archaic) A heavy blow
- 1822, Ronald M'Chronicle (pseud.), Legends of Scotland:
- Deed, my bonny lass, I'll hae a kiss for a' my trouble at least,' and he caught her by the waist ; but she geed him sic a lounder o' the side o' the heed, that she garr'd him reel again
- 1890, John Francis Campbell, Popular Tales of the West Highlands: Orally Collected, page 222:
- When he rose the third time, she struck him a lounder of the stick; the stick stuck to the dead man, and the hand stuck to the stick; and out they were.
- 1827, William Tennant, Papistry storm'd: or, The Dingin' down o' the cathedral, page 14:
- He gave his lunzie sic a lounder As did the sillie man dumfounder.