loundern.
/ˈluːndə/, /ˈlaʊndə/, U.S. /ˈlundər/, /ˈlaʊndər/, Scottish English /ˈlundər/, /ˈlʌʊndər/ Scottish.
A heavy, swingeing blow.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [noun] > striking heavily > a heavy blow
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1723 A. Ramsay Monk & Miller's Wife 263 Wha lent him on the neck a lounder That gart him o'er the threshold founder.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. vi. 170 I wad likeit weel just to hae..gien him a lounder wi' my pike-staff.
1862 W. Hunter Biggar & House of Fleming xix. 231 [The] unwary cur..received such a lounder as sent him howling to his den.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
lounderv.
/ˈluːndə/, /ˈlaʊndə/, U.S. /ˈlundər/, /ˈlaʊndər/, Scottish English /ˈlundər/, /ˈlʌʊndər/ Scottish.
transitive. To beat, cudgel, thrash. Also, to hurl with violence on (something), in quot. figurative.
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1806 in Whitelaw Bk. Sc. Ballads (1875) 284/1 His back they loundert, mell for mell.
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality iv, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 71 If they come to lounder ilk ither as they did last time, suld na I cry on you?
1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xxviii. 330 Why is all this shame loundered on my head?
Derivatives
ˈloundering n.
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1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 148 Her daughter had never seen Jock Porteous..since he had gien her a loundering wi' his cane.
ˈloundering adj. (of a blow) swingeing, severe.
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1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd i. ii To lend his loving wife a loundering lick.
1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. vii. 162 I should rather relish a loundering whack.
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