wallop
English
editPronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwɒl.əp/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈwɑ.ləp/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒləp
- Hyphenation: wal‧lop
Etymology 1
editFrom 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.
Noun
editwallop (countable and uncountable, plural wallops)
- A heavy blow, punch.
- he gave him a mighty wallop
- A person's ability to throw such punches.
- this guy's got some wallop
- An emotional impact, psychological force.
- that film has some serious wallop
- A thrill, emotionally excited reaction.
- (slang, uncountable) Anything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, whitewash.
- 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four:
- "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."
- (archaic) A thick piece of fat.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A quick rolling movement; a gallop.
Derived terms
edit- (beer): codswallop
- pack a wallop
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editVerb
editwallop (third-person singular simple present wallops, present participle walloping or wallopping, simple past and past participle walloped or wallopped)
- (intransitive) To rush hastily.
- (intransitive) To flounder, wallow.
- To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
- 1579, Laurence Thomson, A wee note on Calvin's (wordy) sermons:
- Oure affections boyle within vs, & wallop, frothing as a seething potte.
- (transitive) To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
- Tony got walloped round the face by Mike.
- (transitive) To trounce, beat by a wide margin.
- The other side are bringing out their B-team, so we have to aim to completely wallop them.
- (transitive) To wrap up temporarily.
- To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
- 1822, James Hogg, Siege of Roxburgh:
- Saluting the far loin of his mare […] with an energy that made all his accoutrements wallop.
- 1872, Joseph C. Hart, Miriam Coffin: Or, The Whale-fisherman, page 208:
- 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.
- To eat or drink with gusto.
- 1910, Hilaire Belloc, On Something - Volume 10, page 69:
- 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.
- 2010, William Routledge, Oh Yes, Oh Yes, We are the PPS:
- A greasy spoon café was found, big brekkies ordered and soon walloped down.
- 2019, Mary S. Watts, The Tenants: An Episode of the '80s:
- "Huh! Touch o' green was a fig-leaf, I s'pose—hope so, anyhow!" said Mrs. Botlisch, and "wallopped" down another oyster.
Derived terms
editEtymology 2
editClipping of write to all operators.
Verb
editwallop (third-person singular simple present wallops, present participle walloping, simple past and past participle walloped)
- (Internet) To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.
References
edit- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
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