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English Idioms :: wallop
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walloping.html - See: PACK A PUNCH or PACK A WALLOP. |
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Traditional English :: wallop
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walloping.html - v. & n. sl. --v.tr. (walloped, walloping)
1 a thrash; beat. b hit hard.
2 (as walloping adj.) big; strapping; thumping (a walloping profit). --n. 1 a heavy blow; a thump.
2 Brit. beer or any alcoholic drink. walloping n. [earlier senses 'gallop', 'boil', f. ONF (walop n. f.) waloper, OF galoper: cf. GALLOP] |
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Traditional English :: walloper
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walloping.html - n.
1 a person or thing that wallops.
2 Austral. sl. a policeman. |
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English Idioms :: wallop
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walloping.html - See: PACK A PUNCH or PACK A WALLOP. |
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Traditional English :: Walloon
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walloping.html - n. & adj. --n. 1 a member of a French-speaking people inhabiting S. and E. Belgium and neighbouring France (see also FLEMING ).
2 the French dialect spoken by this people. --adj. of or concerning the Walloons or their language. [F Wallon f. med.L Wallo -onis f. Gmc: cf. WELSH] |
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Traditional English :: wallop
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walloping.html - v. & n. sl. --v.tr. (walloped, walloping)
1 a thrash; beat. b hit hard.
2 (as walloping adj.) big; strapping; thumping (a walloping profit). --n. 1 a heavy blow; a thump.
2 Brit. beer or any alcoholic drink. walloping n. [earlier senses 'gallop', 'boil', f. ONF (walop n. f.) waloper, OF galoper: cf. GALLOP] |
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