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wallop(2)(dictionary)
wallop(dictionary)

wallop(2) (iou)



wallop verb. LME.
[Old Northern French waloper var. of Old & mod. French galoper, perh. blend of Frankish wala well and hlaupan run, ult. from Germanic. Cf. GALLOP verb, LEAP verb.]
I. verb intrans.
Gallop. Now dial. & colloq. LME.
R. Graves When I was a courser..That like the wind would wallop along.
Boil hard with a noisy bubbling. Now dial. L16.
N. Hawthorne An immense pot over the fire, surging and walloping with some kind of..stew.
Make noisy violent or heavy movements; move clumsily or convulsively; flounder. Now dial. & colloq. E18.
Of the heart or blood: pulsate (violently). Scot. M18.
Dangle, flap about; wobble. Scot. & dial. E19.
wallop in a tether Scot. (now rare or obsolete) be hanged.
II. verb trans.
Beat, thrash; strike violently, thump, whack. colloq. E19.
= GOLLOP verb. dial. & colloq. L19.
walloper noun (colloq.) (a) a person who or thing which wallops; (b) anything strikingly big of its kind; (c) Austral. a policeman: M19.