walloping

Used to emphasize the size or extent.

Adjective

  1. Whopping, large in size.
  2. Of exceptional, impressive quality.

Forms

more walloping most walloping

Adverb

  1. Used to emphasize the size or extent.
    • a walloping big lie

Forms

more walloping most walloping

Noun

  1. 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...
  2. 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

  3. A thrashing, serious defeat.

Forms

wallopings

Related

dock walloping pot-walloping

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of wallop