Walloping

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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