to wallop

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

To beat. Provincial in England and colloquial in the United States.


For sic an infair I've been at

As he's but seldom been,

Whar was see wallopin' and wark

As verra few hev seen.--Poems, Cumberland Dialect, p. 133.

I grabs right hold of the cow's tail, and yelled and screamed like mad, and wallopped away at her like anything.--Sam Slick in England, ch. 18.

There's nothing like walloping for taking the conceit out of fellows who think they know more than their betters.--J. C. Neal, Orson Dabbs.

All I know was walloped into me. I took larnin' through the skin.--Neal's Charcoal Sketches.

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