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▪ I. wallop, n.|ˈwɒləp|
Also 5 valop, walop, 6 wallope, 9 wallup, w(h)ollop, etc.
[a. ONF. walop (found in 13th c. in pl. walos) = F. galop, related to galoper to gallop: see wallop v. There is nothing to show whether the verb or the n. is the earlier formation in OF. Both were introduced together into ME. in sense 1, appearing first in the 14th c.; but in later use in all senses the n. is more often to be regarded as newly formed from the verb in its later applications, and with its onomatopœic and humorous connotation. The form gallop appears first in the 16th c. and replaces wallop n. in the original and more elevated sense, in which, however, wallop v. continues to be evidenced.]
†1.
a. A horse's gallop. Only advb. phr. (tr. or imitations of French) (to ride, go, etc.) † a wallop, at the gallop; † a (or the) great wallop, in full gallop. Obs.
c1350Will. Palerne 1770 Þei went a-wai a wallop as þei wod semed. c1450Merlin viii. 127 And than he rode a walop after Vlfyn, gripynge his spere. 1470–85Malory Arthur i. xxii. 69 So he rode a grete wallop tyll he cam to the fontayne. c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon ix. 229 Foulques of morillon cam afore all the other, well horsed..the grete valop agenste Reynawde.
b. A ride at this pace. rare—1. (? Jocular.)
1896E. Crawford Jo of Auchendorass 201 Famous place this for your morning wallop.
†2.
a. The series of noisy bubbling motions made by water, etc. rapidly boiling, or approaching boiling point. Usually in phr. † to boil (seethe) a wallop, a full wallop: to boil with a rapid noisy bubbling, to ‘gallop’. Obs. Cf. walm n.1 3.
1565Golding Ovid's Met. vii. (1593) 160 The medcine seething all the while a wallop in a pan Of brasse, to spirt and leape aloft and gather froth began. 1576Turberv. Venerie lxxix. 230 Put a glasse full of white wine to them, and let them boyle therein, a whalme or a wallop in a pewter pot. 1591A. W. Bk. Cookrye 17 When it seetheth a full wallop, put in your Shrimpes faire washed.
†b. One such bubbling motion (as a vague measure, in cooking, of the time anything is allowed to boil). Only in phr. to boil (or seethe, trans. or intr.), to have, so many wallops. Obs.
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. 130 b, Seethe them [herbs] togeather three or foure wallops, and geue it him bludwarme. 1611Cotgr., s.v. Onde, Bouillir vne onde, to boyle a whyle, or but for one bubble, or a wallop or two. 1682G. Hartman True Preserver Health 11 Let it only boil five or six wallops. 1743Lond. & Country Brewer iv. (ed. 2) 267 Put as much Salt, and Nothing else, as will lie on a Crown-Piece, into a Copper..and as it heats and the Scum rises, take it off before it boils in; then, when it has had a Wallop or two, lade two Pailfuls. 1750Ellis Mod. Husb. III. i. 128 (E.D.S.) Boil the cream a wallop or two to preserve it.
3. dial. (esp. Sc.) and colloq. A violent, heavy, clumsy, noisy movement of the body; a plunging, floundering, lurching, etc.
1820Scott Abbot xv, Some caprioles of the hobby-horse, and some wallops of the dragon. 1834M. Scott Cruise Midge xviii, He made the most laughable wallop imaginable, intended for a bow, but more like the gambol of a porpoise. 1842J. Wilson Recr. Chr. North (1857) I. 4 The yellow trout forsakes his fastness beneath the bog-wood; and with a lazy wallop, and then a sudden plunge [etc.]. 1890D. Davidson Mem. Long Life xi. 269, I put a bullet in the centre of his head, when he [the shark] gave a tremendous wallop and sank.
b. Used onomatopœically and quasi-adverbially with verbs of motion to represent the noise of such movements. to go (down) wallop: to fall noisily.
1540Palsgr. Acolastus iii. i. N iv b, Nowe hath this gredy gutte meat inough to swalow down, by his wide throte, with a choppe and a wallop. 1885Towers Poems 182 (E.D.D.) Souple Tam Gaed wallop ower the stile. 1896Warwick. Word-bk., He went wallop = he fell down all of a heap. 1915Scot at Hame & Abr. 1 July 2/1 Then gallop, gallop, gallop, wallop, wallop, wallop. Though I fall at the high jump, an' onlookers quiver, McGregor, the jockey, will ride on for ever.
4. a. colloq. A heavy resounding blow; a whack. Also (in boxing slang) the capacity to deliver such a blow. Also fig.
1823‘Jon Bee’ Dict. Turf, Wallup, a random hit, any where. 1827Hardman Battle Waterloo 10 Be ready, when the 10th retire, to give the French a wallop. 1836[Hooton] Bilberry Thurland II. viii. 146, I took up a walking-stick, and says to her, ‘Here, Kitty; lay hold of this, and fetch me a great whollop on this soft head of mine.’ 1838Bentley's Misc. III. 459 To each blow of the brass weapon, Sam returned a wallop of a pewter vessel. 1884D. Grant Lays & Leg. North (1908) 103 Thus Davie cud the kelpie guide, Wi' mony a wallop on his hide. 1914Varsity 24 Feb. 15/2 (Boxing) His opponent..has a prodigious ‘wallop’, but no great amount of skill. 1925T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. I. ii. iii. 171 What a wallop, eh? An' us leavin' him and that girl in the car. 1936‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid v. 57 The brandy went down good and packed a real wallop. 1943E. B. White Let. 4 June (1976) 242 K and I got a big wallop out of hearing from you. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 23 Oct. 22/1 Now it assumes a vertical position on the upper half of the page. Better visibility, more wallop. So we think. 1978S. Brill Teamsters x. 390 Life for Harold Gibbons didn't pack much of a wallop anymore.
b. dial. (Sc.) A (violent) beat of the heart or of the pulse.
1787Burns Addr. Unco Guid iv, Think, when your castigated pulse Gies now and then a wallop, What ragings must his veins convulse, That still eternal gallop. 1824Mactaggart Gallov. Encycl. 484, I thought it [my heart] wad hae jumped clean out o' my brisket; lord! what wallops it gaed.
c. colloq. Alcohol, esp. beer; alcoholic drink.
1933Bulletin (Sydney) 11 Jan. 20/2 This time the wallop was met 40 miles away. 1945J. B. Priestley Three Men in New Suits viii. 133 It's drink... Booze or wollop... Nine times out of ten..you wake up in the morning..with the usual hangover. 1949‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-Four i. viii. 90 When I was a young man, mild beer—wallop we used to call it—was fourpence a pint. 1962N. Marsh Hand in Glove ii. 40 ‘May Leonard fix mine?.. He knows my kind of wallop.’.. Leonard adroitly mixed two treble Martinis. 1972L. Lamb Picture Frame vi. 56 Mrs Tyler could do nothing to improve the wallop she served at the Hurdlemakers [Inn].
5. A flapping or fluttering rag. Sc.
1776C. Keith Farmer's Ha' xxxiv, Beggars they come in gelore, Wi' wallops flapping in great store. 1866Gregor Banffsh. Gloss., Wallop, a rag hanging loose and fluttering.
▪ II. wallop, v.|ˈwɒləp|
Inflected walloped |ˈwɒləpt|, walloping. Forms: 4–5 walop(e, 5 walloppe, 5–6 walap, wallope, 5–7 walopp(e, 9 wallup, whallup, wollop, wollup, 6– wallop.
[a. ONF. *waloper = F. galoper (see gallop v.1). The existence of this form is evidenced in addition to the English forms by OF. walos n. pl. and the adopted form Flem. walop(pe, MHG. walop, -ap n. MHG. walopiren vb., and probably by mod. Walloon (Sigart) waloper to rinse linen in water. Cf. Norw. (Aasen) val(l)hoppa vb., app. an etymologizing alteration, after Norw. hoppa to leap, dance.
A satisfactory origin for this word in French has not been suggested. It is probably purely echoic, or an echoic alteration of some Teut. element or elements. The Provençal form galaupar has suggested Teut. *ga-hlaupan (OE. ᵹehléapan, f. ᵹe- y- prefix + hléapan to leap), but the evidence for original w- precludes the comparison of the initial element.
In English the onomatopœic suggestion of the word has lent itself to varied extension of meanings and to a vague (usually colloq. and humorous) application to violent noisy movements, more especially since the form gallop ousted it from the more elevated uses (in the course of the 16th c.).
The sense ‘to boil rapidly’ is probably derived directly by transference from sense 1 (cf. gallop v.2 to boil) in spite of the close resemblance of the word to wall v.1 + up (cf. well up, and Du. opwallen). The relation of potwalloper to potwaller indicates that some such association was active.
The sense ‘to beat’ may be ultimately due to the causative use (sense 2, and cf. F. galoper trans.), or may be entirely due to onomatopœic extension.]
†I.
1. intr. To gallop. Obs.
a. of horses.
a1400[see walloping ppl. a.]. c1430Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 3642 Al this folk of mych price in feire armes, and helmes shene,..withe feire stedes walopand. c1440Promp. Parv. 514/2 Waloppon, as horse, volopto. c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon xiv. 346 Cam there kyng charlemagn, as fast as his horse myghte walop. 1513Douglas æneis xi. x. 23 (1710), He [the courser] sprentis furth, and ful proude waloppis he, Hie strekand vp his hede with mony ane ne. 1570Levins Manip. 169/34 To gallop, fundere gradus, to Wallop, idem, cursitare.
b. of a rider.
1375Barbour Bruce ii. 440 To this word thai assentyt all, And fra thaim walopyt owyr mar. c1420Wyntoun Cron. iv. 234 (Cott.) Þe cursoure he straik wiþe þe spuris, And walapande our floyis and furis Al befor þe ost he rade. c1440Generydes 3325 He founde anon The kyng of kynggez vppe and down rideng, And he anon to hym com waloping. c1500Melusine xxi. 130 And thenne the Knight broched hys hors, and waloped toward hys felawes. 1529Lyndesay Compl. 179 And sum, to schaw thare courtlie corsis, Wald ryid to leith, and ryn thare horssis, And wychtlie wallope ouer the sandis. 1721Ramsay Up in Air i, And witches wallop o'er to France, Up in the air On my bony grey mare.
†2. trans. To let gallop, put to the gallop. Obs. rare. (Cf. gallop v.1 3.)
c1489Caxton Blanchardyn xi. 42 Blanchardyn wyth a glad chere waloped his courser as bruyauntly as he coude. 1490― Eneydos lxi. 161 A knyghte..came ayenste hym as faste as he myghte spore and waloppe his horse.
II.
3. intr. To boil violently and with a noisy bubbling. Also fig.
1579Tomson Calvin's Serm. Tim. 191/2 Oure affections boyle within vs, & wallop, frothing as a seething potte. 1617J. Moore Mappe Mans Mortalitie i. iii. 25 This corruption..sendeth out the filthy scum of all vncleannesse, which continually broyleth and walloppeth in our nature. a1649S. Crooke Div. Charact. i. xxxiii. (1658) 499 There is little to choose between a boyling pot unscummed, and the pot that, for want of heate, hath no scumme raised..that wallops as the Sea about Leviathan; and this, paves it with stone. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. III. 24 We do not measure Milk when it Wallops and Seeths, but when it is Cold. 1787J. Barlow Hasty Pudding, The yellow flour..thickens to a paste, Then puffs and wallops, rises to the brim, Drinks the dry knobs that on the surface swim. [1845: see walloping ppl. a. 1] .1863Hawthorne Our Old Home II. 233 We beheld an immense pot over the fire, surging and walloping with some kind of a savory stew.
III. 4. a. To make violent, heavy movements (accompanied by noise); to move clumsily or convulsively; to flounder, plunge. colloq. and dial.
1715Ramsay Christ's Kirk Gr. ii. x, The lasses babb'd about the reel, Gar'd a' their hurdies wallop. 1820Scott Abbot xiv, The dragon walloped and hissed, and the hobby⁓horse neighed. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Wallop, (1) To move as fast as possible, but not without much effort and agitation... The gallop of a cow or a cart-horse is a good specimen of wallopping. 1840Thackeray Barber Cox Mar., Trumpeter gone clean from under me, and walloping and floundering in the ditch underneath. 1846Landor Pentam. iii. Wks. 1853 II. 334/2 They should not waddle and wallop in every hollow lane, nor loll out their watery tongues at every wash-pool in the parish. c1854Ferrier Let. in E. S. Haldane Life (1899) 82, I take it that I have caught you in my net, and that wallop about as you will I shall land you at last. 1889W. C. Russell Marooned xxxii, All was now bustle; the negroes walloped about, tumbling into the boat, bawling out like school-boys at play. 1897Outing XXIX. 544/1 In a moment he [a pup] caught sight of his mother and walloped over to her. 1906Helen Mathers Tally Ho! i. i, Sir George Freeling came walloping up on his big iron-grey horse. 1916Blackw. Mag. Nov. 650/1 The puppy..wallops clumsily round trying to get a bit out of every one else's share.
b. Of the heart, the blood: To pulsate (violently). Sc. Cf. wallop n. 4 b.
1766A. Nicol Poems 21 (E.D.D.) My heart will..wallop. 1807Tannahill Soldier's Return i. i, Odsaffs! my heart did never wallop cadger, Than when the Laird took Harry for a sodger. 1813Picken Poems i. 97 (E.D.D.) Whan the tide o' youthful' bluid Thro' a' yer heartstrings wallops.
5. To dangle, flap, ‘flop about’, wobble. colloq. and dial. (esp. Sc.).
1822Hogg Siege Roxb. xiii. Tales & Sk. VI. 238 Saluting the far loin of his mare..with an energy that made all his accoutrements wallop. 1843Commissioner: or De Lunatico Inq. 218 His fat sides shook and walloped. 1887P. McNeill Blawearie 15 Wee Connie Rogan, the ingenuity of whose parents it altogether surpasses to know how to keep his nether garments from walloping behind him. 1890‘H. Haliburton’ In Scottish Fields 32 His West-of-England frock-coat so rent..that the loose half walloped in the dust or mud all the way behind him.
b. Phr. to wallop in a tow (or tether): to be hanged. Sc.
1785Burns To W. Simpson xvii, Now let us lay our heads thegither, In love fraternal; May Envy wallop in a tether, Black fiend, infernal. 1792― Weary Pund o' Tow iv, And 'or I wad anither jad, I'll wallop in a tow. a1835W. Robertson in W. Walker Bards of Bon-Accord (1887) 607 I'd rather wallup in a tether Than lightly thee.
IV.
6. trans. colloq. To beat soundly, belabour, thrash; also occas. used as humorously for beat v. in fig. senses, e.g. to get the better of, surpass.
1825Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng., To Wallup, to beat. 1837S. Lover Rory O'More I. ii. 46 ‘Then what does he [the priest] want the heavy stick for?’ ‘For wallopin' his flock, to be sure,’ said Rory. 1849W. S. Mayo Kaloolah vi. (1850) 52, I wollopped the hoop around him. 1865Meredith Rhoda Fleming xxiv, Walloping men is poor work, if you come to compare it with walloping Nature. 1882Besant All Sorts xxx, He's always up to tricks; and if you wallop him, likely as not, next night, he'll take and spoil your best trick out of revenge. 1886Stevenson Kidnapped v, I have a rope's end of my own to wollop 'em. 1916E. Phillpotts Faith Tresilion xiii, If I've got to go about walloping the fear of God into everybody who offered for Faith, I shall be busier than I want to be.
Add:[IV.] 7. dial. and colloq. = gollop v.; to swallow greedily.
1892Dialect Notes I. 211 Wallop,..‘My food don't set well. I kind o' wallop it up.’ 1910Belloc Verses 54 St Peter will befriend me then, Because my name is Peter too: I know him for the best of men That ever wallopped barley brew. 1966‘L. Lane’ ABZ of Scouse 57 If yer don't wallop yer jollop yer'll get ther beezers in yer belly. 1983A. T. Ellis Other Side of Fire xv. 94, I had a rather weary mackerel out of a tin... Gloria liked it though. The way she walloped it down. 1983D. Gethin Wyatt xx. 145 She ate a grapefruit, three thin slices of ham and drank black coffee. I walloped two gammon steaks, mushrooms, eggs and toast. |