wallop

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈwɒl.əp/ X-SAMPA: /"wQl.@p/

Etymology 1

From Middle English wallopen (“gallop”), from Anglo-Norman, 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 a Proto-Germanic word meaning "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)

1. A heavy blow, punch.
2. A person's ability to throw such punches.
3. An emotional impact, psychological force.
4. A thrill, emotionally excited reaction.
5. (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."

6. (archaic) A thick piece of fat.
7. (UK, Scotland, dialect) A quick rolling movement; a gallop.

Derived terms

• (beer): codswallop

Translations

a heavy blow, punch

• Dutch: knal (nl) m
• Japanese: パンチ (ja) (panchi)
• Jèrriais: tourné-oualipe f, oualipe f

• Russian: сильный удар m
• Serbo-Croatian: udarac (sh) m

Verb

wallop (third-person singular simple present wallops, present participle wallopping, simple past and past participle wallopped)

1. (intransitive) To rush hastily
2. (intransitive) To flounder, wallow
3. (intransitive) To boil noisily
4. (transitive) To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
5. (transitive) To trounce, beat by a wide margin.
6. (transitive) To wrap up temporarily.

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)

1. (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