walloping

English

Adjective

walloping (comparative more walloping, superlative most walloping)

1. (slang) Whopping, large in size.
2. (slang) Of exceptional, impressive quality.

Adverb

walloping (comparative more walloping, superlative most walloping)

1. Used to emphasize the size or extent.

   a walloping big lie

Noun

walloping (plural wallopings)

1. A series of wallops or blows; a beating.
   • 1914, Booth Tarkington, Penrod, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC:

     And your father really believes that you're a decorous, well-trained young business man, and whenever you don't live up to that standard you get on his nerves and he thinks you need a walloping.

2. (figuratively, by extension) Verbal abuse.

   Synonym: tongue lashing

   For forgetting to pick up the package again, my boss gave me a walloping.

   • 2025 June 7, Maureen Dowd, “Clash of the Bilious Billionaires”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     But it might better be applied to Trump’s social media spat with Elon Musk. It’s hard to think of two pueri aeterni who are more deserving of a verbal walloping.

3. (figuratively, by extension) A thrashing, serious defeat.

Related terms

• dock walloping
• pot-walloping

Verb

walloping

1. present participle and gerund of wallop