Wallop \Wal"lop\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Walloped; p. pr. & vb.
n. Walloping.] [Probably fr. AS. weallan to spring up, to
boil or bubble. [root]147. See Well, n. & v. i.]
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1. To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling,
with noise. [Prov. Eng.] --Brockett.
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2. To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle. [Prov.
Eng.] --Halliwell.
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3. To be slatternly. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
walloping
adj : (used informally) very large; "a thumping loss" [syn: humongous,
banging, thumping, whopping]
n : a sound defeat [syn: thrashing, debacle, drubbing, slaughter,
trouncing, whipping]
WordNet (r) 2.0
26 Moby Thesaurus words for "walloping":
banging, bumping, colossal, dressing-down, enormous, gargantuan,
giant, gigantic, hiding, immense, larruping, lathering, leathering,
licking, mammoth, monster, paddling, prodigious, slapping,
spanking, tanning, thumping, thundering, whacking, whaling,
whopping
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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