walloping adj.
1. (also walluping) clumsy, awkward.
![]() | Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc. 190: ‘A walloping sort of fellow,’ one whose walk [...] is of the awkward kind, rolling, knock-kneed, unkid, and difficult. ‘A walluping bout,’ a fight without skill. |
2. (also wholloping, wolloping) a general intensifier, usu. as to size; often ext. as walloping great.
![]() | Hist. of the Haveral Wives (1799) 6: He has twa gilly gawkies o’ dochters wha [...] lug a wallopin white thing hinging like a snotter at a bubly wean’s nose. | |
![]() | Comical Dialogue Between Maggy and Janet 9: A wallopin white thing hinging like a snotter at a bubbly wean’s nose. | |
![]() | ‘The Bean-Tosser’ Black Joke 23: This mighty Turk, was a man of great parts [...] Could bore a great hole in the feminine hearts, / With his wolloping, dolloping dandy O. | |
![]() | Spirit of the Times 26 Jan. (N.Y.) 581: I looked up and thar was one of the eternalist whollopin’ bars. | ‘Mike Hooter’s Bar Story’|
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![]() | Dundee Courier 8 Feb. 3/4: Another Whale [...] The crew who dreaded that their boat would be upset, were exceedingly glad to get ckear of their walloping visitor. | |
![]() | Warwickshire Word-Book 259: Walloping. Huge, bulky. | |
![]() | Sheffield Gloss. 274: Walloping, large, great. | |
![]() | Filibusters 262: I came upon a walloping great stone, which I found that with a bit of a push would move. | |
![]() | Job 257: ‘[T]hese rough-necks that claim they’d rather have a good, healthy walloping country wench than a nice, refined city lady’. | |
![]() | None But the Lonely Heart 81: A walloping big picture of blokes on horses having a go at each other. | |
![]() | Und. Nights 167: Three walloping great groins and a stack of crinkle. | |
![]() | Rockabilly (1963) 21: The testimonial dinner had been a walloping success. | |
![]() | Desperate Dan Special No. 7 77: Your great walloping size 16 feet. |
3. in fig. use, powerful.
![]() | ‘The Bilk’ in Randy Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) I 208: Now Bet some weeks before had been with a wollopping coalheaver, / Who, after he had done the trick, the injury he did give her. | |
![]() | Warwickshire Word-Book 259: Walloping. [...] powerful. | |
![]() | Derby Dly Teleg. 16 Nov. 2/3: Silken! Hilarious! Romance with a walloping new kick. | |
![]() | On Broadway 9 Apr. [synd. col.] Father Kernan’s walloping talks are now heard via WHN Thursdays. | |
![]() | From Gags to Riches 127: Dan Parker tagged him ‘The Walloping Wop.’. |