wallop
/ˈwɑ.ləp/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.62 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "he gave him a mighty wallop"
- "An' in the twentieth we stood in the middle of the ring an' exchanged wallops even."
- "this guy's got some wallop"
- "that film has some serious wallop"
- ""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.""
- "Oure affections boyle within vs, & wallop, frothing as a seething potte."
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈwɑ.ləp/
- British English: /ˈwɒl.əp/