walloping
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
walloping
adj 1: (used informally) very large; "a thumping loss" [syn:
{humongous}, {banging}, {thumping}, {whopping},
{walloping}]
n 1: a sound defeat [syn: {thrashing}, {walloping}, {debacle},
{drubbing}, {slaughter}, {trouncing}, {whipping}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Wallop \Wal"lop\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Walloped}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Walloping}.] [Probably fr. AS. weallan to spring up, to
boil or bubble. [root]147. See {Well}, n. & v. i.]
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1. To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling,
with noise. [Prov. Eng.] --Brockett.
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2. To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle. [Prov.
Eng.] --Halliwell.
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3. To be slatternly. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
26 Moby Thesaurus words for "walloping":
banging, bumping, colossal, dressing-down, enormous, gargantuan,
giant, gigantic, hiding, immense, larruping, lathering, leathering,
licking, mammoth, monster, paddling, prodigious, slapping,
spanking, tanning, thumping, thundering, whacking, whaling,
whopping
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