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Walloper vs Wallower - What's the difference?

walloper | wallower |

As nouns the difference between walloper and wallower

is that walloper is one who wallops while wallower is agent noun of wallow; one who wallows.

walloper

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who .
  • (Ireland) A cudgel, a shillelagh.
  • (Australia, slang, jocular) A policeman, a male police officer.
  • * 1950 , ,
    • Police! Everyone out! The bloody wallopers are on their way!
  • * 1971 , , Dealing with Cops'', in ''Aussie Etiket'', quoted in 1988, ''Aussie Humour , Macmillan, ISBN 0-7251-0553-4, page 200,
    • Uniformed cops are generally known as ‘wallopers ’, and cops in plain clothes are called ‘demons’. These latter, supposed to be disguised, are instantly recognisable.
  • * 2006 , Andrew Stafford, Pig City: From the Saints to Savage Garden , page 106,
    • Understandably the wallopers were called, and they cleared everybody out.

    Synonyms

    * (police officer) see

    Derived terms

    * dock walloper * pot-walloper

    wallower

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Agent noun of wallow; one who wallows.
  • (dated, engineering) A lantern wheel; a trundle.
  • * 1847 , Edward Cresy, An Encyclopaedia of Civil Engineering, Historical, Theoretical, and Practical
    • At each end of the water-wheel is a vertical shaft with wallowers
    English agent nouns