Walloper vs Walloped - What's the difference?
walloper | walloped |
One who .
(Ireland) A cudgel, a shillelagh.
(Australia, slang, jocular) A policeman, a male police officer.
* 1950 , ,
* 1971 , , Dealing with Cops'', in ''Aussie Etiket'', quoted in 1988, ''Aussie Humour , Macmillan, ISBN 0-7251-0553-4, page 200,
* 2006 , Andrew Stafford, Pig City: From the Saints to Savage Garden ,
(wallop)
A heavy blow, punch.
A person's ability to throw such punches.
An emotional impact, psychological force.
A thrill, emotionally excited reaction.
(slang) anything produced by a process that involves boiling; Beer, tea, whitewash.
* 1949 , ,
(archaic) A thick piece of fat.
(UK, Scotland, dialect) A quick rolling movement; a gallop.
To rush hastily
To flounder, wallow
To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
To trounce, beat by a wide margin.
To wrap up temporarily.
To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
To be slatternly.
As a noun walloper
is one who.As a verb walloped is
(wallop).walloper
English
Noun
(en noun)- Police! Everyone out! The bloody wallopers are on their way!
- Uniformed cops are generally known as ‘wallopers ’, and cops in plain clothes are called ‘demons’. These latter, supposed to be disguised, are instantly recognisable.
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- Understandably the wallopers were called, and they cleared everybody out.
Synonyms
* (police officer) seeDerived terms
* dock walloper * pot-walloperwalloped
English
Verb
(head)wallop
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Compare the doublet gallop.Noun
(en noun)- "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 ."
Derived terms
* (beer) codswallopVerb
(wallopp)- (Brockett)
- (Halliwell)
- (Halliwell)