wallop

== English == === Alternative forms === wollop (archaic) === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwɒl.əp/ (US) IPA(key): /ˈwɑ.ləp/ 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 *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 (countable and uncountable, plural wallops) A heavy blow, a punch. A person's ability to throw such punches. An emotional impact, a psychological force. A thrill, an emotionally excited reaction. (slang, uncountable) Anything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, or whitewash. (archaic) A thick piece of fat. (UK, Scotland, dialect) A quick rolling movement; a gallop. ===== Derived terms ===== (beer): codswallop pack a wallop ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== wallop (third-person singular simple present wallops, present participle walloping, simple past and past participle walloped) (intransitive) To rush hastily. (intransitive) To flounder, wallow. To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise. (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. To eat or drink with gusto. ===== Derived terms ===== walloper walloping === Etymology 2 === Clipping of write to all operators. ==== Verb ==== wallop (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 === “wallop” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.