wallop
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwɒl.əp/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒləp
- Hyphenation: wal‧lop
Etymology 1
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 *klaup-, *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
wallop (plural wallops)
- A heavy blow, punch.
- A person's ability to throw such punches.
- An emotional impact, psychological force.
- A thrill, emotionally excited reaction.
- (slang) 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."
- 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four,
- (archaic) A thick piece of fat.
- (Britain, Scotland, dialectal) A quick rolling movement; a gallop.
Derived terms
- (beer): codswallop
Translations
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Verb
wallop (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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Brockett to this entry?)
- (transitive) To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
- (transitive) To trounce, beat by a wide margin.
- (transitive) To wrap up temporarily.
- To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
- To be slatternly.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Derived terms
- walloper
- walloping
Etymology 2
From the acronym: write [to] all operators
Verb
wallop (third-person singular simple present wallops, present participle walloping, simple past and past participle walloped)
- (Internet) To write a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.
References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967