walloping
noun
[ ˈwɒləpɪŋ ]
• a beating.
• "she gave him a good walloping"
walloping
adjective
• large and powerful.
• "a walloping shock"
wallop
verb
• strike or hit very hard.
• "they walloped the back of his head with a stick"
Similar:
hit,
strike,
beat,
batter,
thump,
pound,
attack,
assault,
knock,
rap,
smack,
thwack,
slap,
pummel,
punch,
rain blows on,
belabour,
hammer,
cudgel,
thrash,
bang,
drub,
welt,
cuff,
crack,
buffet,
box someone's ears,
bash,
clobber,
clout,
clip,
whack,
belt,
tan,
biff,
bop,
lay into,
pitch into,
lace into,
let someone have it,
sock,
lam,
whomp,
stick one on,
slosh,
boff,
bust,
slug,
light into,
whale,
dong,
quilt,
smite,
swinge,
Origin:
Middle English (as a noun denoting a horse's gallop): from Old Northern French walop (noun), waloper (verb), perhaps from a Germanic phrase meaning ‘run well’, from the bases of well1 and leap. Compare with gallop. From ‘gallop’ the senses ‘bubbling noise of a boiling liquid’ and then ‘sound of a clumsy movement’ arose, leading to the current senses.
