wallop

Meanings

1. A heavy blow, a punch.
2. A person's ability to throw such punches.
3. An emotional impact, a psychological force.
4. A thrill, an emotionally excited reaction.
5. Anything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, or whitewash.
6. A thick piece of fat.
7. A quick rolling movement; a gallop.

1. To rush hastily.
2. To flounder, wallow.
3. To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
4. To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
5. To trounce, beat by a wide margin.
6. To wrap up temporarily.
7. To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
8. To eat or drink with gusto.

1. To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.

1. A surname.

Etymology

From Middle English wallopen (“gallop”), from Anglo-Norman [Term?], from Old Northern French walop (“gallop”, noun) and waloper (“to gallop”, verb) (compare Old French galoper, whence modern French galoper), from Frankish *wala hlaupan (“to run well”) from *wala (“well”) + *hlaupan (“to run”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną (“to run, leap, spring”), from Proto-Indo-European *klaub- (“to spring, stumble”). Possibly also derived from a deverbal of Frankish *walhlaup (“battle run”) from *wal (“battlefield”) from Proto-Germanic [Term?] (“dead, victim, slain”) from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“death in battle, killed in battle”) + *hlaup (“course, track”) from *hlaupan (“to run”). Compare the doublet gallop.