喜樂美語
  1. 1用力打、揍；（名詞）重擊；（口語）大敗對手

    To wallop someone or something is to hit it very hard, usually with your hand or with something you are holding. The word is informal and spoken, mostly British, Irish and Australian, and it carries the sound of the hit in it — a wallop is heavy and loud, not a light slap. You can also use it as a noun: he gave the ball a great wallop; she got a wallop on the head. Two useful stretches. First, sport: to wallop a team means to beat them by a lot ("we got walloped 6-0"), and here nobody is hitting anyone. Second, the phrase "packs a wallop", meaning something has a strong effect — a drink, a piece of news, a punch. The word is often used lightly, even jokingly, between friends, but be careful: when it is about hitting a child or a person, it is a real hit, and older people in Britain and Ireland use it when talking about the smacking they got at school long ago.

組成The old meaning is a surprise: it came from Old Northern French walop, meaning "a gallop" — a horse running fast. English has the pair twice over, once as gallop and once as wallop, from the same word taken in at different times. The idea slid from the heavy pounding of hooves to a heavy blow.

同家族的字

  • gallopthe same Old French word, borrowed into English by a different route

原始詞典資料17 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Wallopname

  • 1

    A surname.

wallopnoun詞源 1/ˈwɒl.əp/

  • 1

    A heavy blow, a punch.

    • he gave him a mighty wallop
    • An' in the twentieth we stood in the middle of the ring an' exchanged wallops even.
  • 2

    A person's ability to throw such punches.

    • this guy's got some wallop
  • 3

    An emotional impact, a psychological force.

    • that film has some serious wallop
  • 4

    A thrill, an emotionally excited reaction.

  • 5

    slangAnything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, or whitewash.

    • "You're a gent," said the other, straightening his shoulders again. He appeared not to have noticed Winston's blue overalls. "Pint!" he added aggressively to the barman. "Pint of wallop."
  • 6

    archaicA thick piece of fat.

  • 7

    dialectalA quick rolling movement; a gallop.

wallopverb詞源 1/ˈwɒl.əp/

  • 1

    To rush hastily.

  • 2

    To flounder, wallow.

  • 3

    To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.

    • Oure affections boyle within vs, & wallop, frothing as a seething potte.
  • 4

    To strike heavily, thrash soundly.

    • Tony got walloped round the face by Mike.
    • “It’s just like old times. Nearly walloped the life out of me to stop me going away, and now I come back he throws a confounded shovel at my head to keep me out. It grazed my shoulder.”
  • 5

    To trounce, beat by a wide margin.

    • The other side are bringing out their B-team, so we have to aim to completely wallop them.
  • 6

    To wrap up temporarily.

  • 7

    To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.

    • Saluting the far loin of his mare[…]with an energy that made all his accoutrements wallop.
    • The second act commenced, and the old-fashioned sixpenny waves of Drury did their best, and wallopped about, under a canvas blanket representing the sea, and dashed against the rocks and tall cliffs of the scene to admiration.
  • 8

    To eat or drink with gusto.

    • St. Peter will befriend me then, Because my name is Peter too; I know him for the best of men That ever wallopped barley brew.
    • A greasy spoon café was found, big brekkies ordered and soon walloped down.

wallopverb詞源 2/ˈwɒl.əp/

  • 1

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

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