Walloping ppl. a.

[-ING².]

  1.  That wallops. Now chiefly (colloq. or dial.), that moves with a clumsy irregular gait.

a. 1400[?].  Morte Arth., 2147. Sweltand knyghtez Lyes wyde opyne welterande one walopande stedez.

1837.  Ht. Martineau, Soc. Amer. (1839), I. 305. There were black women ploughing in the field, with … their wolloping gait and vacant countenance.

1845.  S. Judd, Margaret, I. i. She graduates the walloping syrup when it is likely to overflow.

  2.  dial. Strikingly large, powerful, etc.; ‘thumping,’ ‘whopping.’ Often reinforced with big, great. (See Eng. Dial. Dict.)

1847.  Halliwell, Walloping, great. var. dial.