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walloping |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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.] 1. To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise. [Prov. Eng.] --Brockett. 2. To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. 3. To be slatternly. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: walloping adj : (used informally) very large "a thumping loss" [syn: {humongous}, {thumping}, {whopping}] n : a sound defeat [syn: {thrashing}, {debacle}, {drubbing}, {slaughter}, {trouncing}, {whipping}]
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