walloping
Used to emphasize the size or extent.
Adjective
- Whopping, large in size.
- Of exceptional, impressive quality.
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Adverb
- Used to emphasize the size or extent.
- a walloping big lie
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Noun
- A series of wallops or blows; a beating.
- And your father really believes that you're a decorous, well-trained young business man, and whenever you don't live up to that standard you get on his nerves and he thinks you need a walloping. - 1914, Booth...
- Verbal abuse.
- For forgetting to pick up the package again, my boss gave me a walloping.
- But it might better be applied to Trump’s social media spat with Elon Musk. It’s hard to think of two pueri aeterni who are more deserving of a verbal walloping. - 2025 June 7, Maureen Dowd, “Clash of the Bilious...
Synonyms: tongue lashing
- A thrashing, serious defeat.
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Verb
- present participle and gerund of wallop