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▪ I. pot-ˈwalloping, n. nonce-wd.
[f. pot n.1 + walloping: see wallop v.]
The boiling of a pot; in quot. the sound produced by the boiler of an engine.
1849De Quincey Eng. Mail Coach §1 Wks. 1862 IV. 303 The trumpet that once announced from afar the laurelled mail..has now given way for ever to the pot-wallopings of the boiler.
▪ II. pot-ˈwalloping, a.
[f. as prec.]
1. Boiling a pot: applied to a voter who boiled his pot, or a borough in which the voters were potwallopers (see potwaller).
1791–3Spirit Pub. Jrnls. (1799) I. 95 Has he any close and pot-wallopping boroughs, where no property is the qualification? 1824Hist. Gaming 28 A special bargain..that his bill for garden stuff..should be paid off as the price of his pot-walluping vote. 1840Alison Hist. Europe (1849–50) IX. lxiv. §55. 609 ‘England's pride and Westminster's glory’, as he [Sir F. Burdett] was termed by his potwalloping constituents in that borough. 1893Vizetelly Glances Back I. i. 7 Hunt managed to get elected..for the pot-walloping borough of Preston.
¶2. erron. for walloping = making vigorous but unwieldy movements. (Cf. wallop v.)
1899Crockett Kit Kennedy 161 Royal lumbered through the shallows like a great pot-walloping elephant. |