Hypertext Webster Gateway: "walloping"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Wallop \Wal"lop\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Walloped}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Walloping}.] [Probably fr. AS. weallan to spring up, to
boil or bubble. [root]147. See {Well}, n. & v. i.]
1. To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling,
with noise. [Prov. Eng.] --Brockett.
2. To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle. [Prov.
Eng.] --Halliwell.
3. To be slatternly. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
walloping
adj : (used informally) very large; "a thumping loss" [syn: {humongous},
{thumping}, {whopping}]
n : a sound defeat [syn: {thrashing}, {debacle}, {drubbing}, {slaughter},
{trouncing}, {whipping}]
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