wallop

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A heavy blow, punch.
2. (countable, uncountable) A person's ability to throw such punches.
3. (countable, uncountable) An emotional impact, psychological force.
4. (countable, uncountable) A thrill, emotionally excited reaction.
5. (slang, uncountable) Anything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, whitewash.
6. (archaic, countable, uncountable) A thick piece of fat.
7. (Scotland, UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable) A quick rolling movement; a gallop.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To rush hastily.
2. (intransitive) To flounder, wallow.
3. To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
4. (transitive) To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
5. (transitive) To trounce, beat by a wide margin.
6. (transitive) To wrap up temporarily.
7. To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
8. To eat or drink with gusto.

Verb

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Synonyms

strike

smack

hit

beat

whack

thrash

beat up

stub

thresh

whip

slug

knock down

knock

clout

wham

find

🔍

attain

whop

bang

catch

sock

punch

👊

belt

hammer

🔨

bash

run across

run up against

score

impact

encounter

imprint

lam

mar

mark

palpitate

pound

💷

print

punish

rebuke

retreat

scent

scold

ale

scramble

scuffle

shadow

shock

⚡

slam

slog

slot

Translations

slaan

bater

malhar

🔨

pegar

picchiare

meppen

fligere

colpire

pellere

pegar

ausklopfen

battuere

copejar

batre

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈwɒl.əp/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: wallopen

Cognate with Old French: galoper

Cognate with French: galoper

In summary

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.