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.]
   [1913 Webster]
   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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