wallopとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈwɒl.əp/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈwɑ.ləp/
• 韻: -ɒləp
• ハイフネーション: wal‧lop

語源 1

From 中期英語 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.

名詞

wallop (countable and uncountable, plural wallops)

1. A heavy blow, a punch.

   he gave him a mighty wallop

   • 1913 October, Jack London, The Valley of the Moon, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC:

     An' in the twentieth we stood in the middle of the ring an' exchanged wallops even.

2. A person's ability to throw such punches.

   this guy's got some wallop

3. An emotional impact, a psychological force.

   that film has some serious wallop

4. A thrill, an emotionally excited reaction.
5. (slang, uncountable) Anything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, or whitewash.
   • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four:

     "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."

6. (archaic) A thick piece of fat.
7. (UK, Scotland, dialect) A quick rolling movement; a gallop.

派生語

• (beer): codswallop
• pack a wallop

動詞

wallop (third-person singular simple present wallops, present participle walloping, simple past and past participle walloped)

1. (intransitive) To rush hastily.
2. (intransitive) To flounder, wallow.
3. To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
   • 1579, Laurence Thomson, A wee note on Calvin's (wordy) sermons:

     Oure affections boyle within vs, & wallop, frothing as a seething potte.

4. (transitive) To strike heavily, thrash soundly.

   Tony got walloped round the face by Mike.

   • 1902, Joseph Conrad, To-morrow‎:

     “It’s just like old times. Nearly walloped the life out of me to stop me going away, and now I come back he throws a confounded shovel at my head to keep me out. It grazed my shoulder.”

   • 1913 October, Jack London, The Valley of the Moon, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC:

     I've been timin' his rushes an' straight-leftin' him, an' meetin' his duck with a wicked little right upper-cut, an' he's shaken me on the jaw an' walloped my ears till my head's all singin' an' buzzin'.

   • 2026 February 24, Christina Morales, Jenna Russell, “Snowstorm Is ‘as Bad as I’ve Seen It,’ Massachusetts Governor Says”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     The blizzard walloping the Northeast knocked down power lines and made roads impassable across Massachusetts on Monday, leaving hundreds of thousands without power and stranding vehicles across the state

   • 2026 March 12, Patricia Cohen, “Fallout From Iran War and Oil Shock Deliver Another Blow to World Economy”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     Countries already walloped by a breakdown of the international trading order, war in Ukraine and chaotic U.S. policymaking are facing potentially lasting economic damage.

5. (transitive) To trounce, beat by a wide margin.

   The other side are bringing out their B-team, so we have to aim to completely wallop them.

6. (transitive) To wrap up temporarily.
7. To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
   • 1822, James Hogg, Siege of Roxburgh:

     Saluting the far loin of his mare […] with an energy that made all his accoutrements wallop.

   • 1872, Joseph C. Hart, Miriam Coffin: Or, The Whale-fisherman, page 208:

     The second act commenced, and the old-fashioned sixpenny waves of Drury did their best, and wallopped about, under a canvas blanket representing the sea, and dashed against the rocks and tall cliffs of the scene to admiration.

8. To eat or drink with gusto.
   • 1910, Hilaire Belloc, On Something - Volume 10, page 69:

     St. Peter will befriend me then, Because my name is Peter too; I know him for the best of men That ever wallopped barley brew.

   • 2010, William Routledge, Oh Yes, Oh Yes, We are the PPS:

     A greasy spoon café was found, big brekkies ordered and soon walloped down.

   • 2019, Mary S. Watts, The Tenants: An Episode of the '80s:

     "Huh! Touch o' green was a fig-leaf, I s'pose—hope so, anyhow!" said Mrs. Botlisch, and "wallopped" down another oyster.

派生語

• walloper
• walloping

語源 2

Clipping of write to all operators.

動詞

wallop (third-person singular simple present wallops, present participle walloping, simple past and past participle walloped)

1. (Internet) To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.

参照

• “wallop” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.