different between wallop vs cuff

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w?l.?p/
• Rhymes: -?l?p
• Hyphenation: wal?lop

Etymology 1

From Middle English 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 *hlaupan? (“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.

Noun

wallop (plural wallops)

1. A heavy blow, punch.

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

3. An emotional impact, psychological force.

4. A thrill, emotionally excited reaction.
5. (slang) anything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, 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. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) A quick rolling movement; a gallop.

Derived terms

• (beer): codswallop

Translations

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To rush hastily.
2. (intransitive) To flounder, wallow.
3. To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.

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

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

6. (transitive) To wrap up temporarily.
7. To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.

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8. To be slatternly.

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Derived terms

• walloper
• walloping

Etymology 2

Clipping of write to all operators.

Verb

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.

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?f/
• Rhymes: -?f

Etymology 1

From Middle English cuffe, coffe (“glove, mitten”), of obscure origin. Perhaps from Old English cuffie (“hood, cap”), from Medieval Latin cofia, cofea, cuffa, cuphia (“helmet, headdress, hood, cap”), from Frankish *kuf(f)ja (“headdress”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuffju, from Proto-Germanic *kupj? (“cap”). Cognate with Middle High German kupfe (“cap”).

Noun

cuff (plural cuffs)

1. (obsolete) glove; mitten
2. the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
3. the end of a pants leg, folded up
4. (informal, plural only) handcuffs

Derived terms

• shoot one's cuffs

Related terms

• cufflinks
• turnup
• off-the-cuff

Translations

Verb

cuff (third-person singular simple present cuffs, present participle cuffing, simple past and past participle cuffed)

1. (transitive) To furnish with cuffs.
2. (transitive) To handcuff.

Translations

Etymology 2

1520, “to hit”, apparently of North Germanic origin, from Norwegian kuffa (“to push, shove”) or Swedish kuffa (“to knock, thrust, strike”), from the Proto-Germanic base *skuf- (sku?), from Proto-Indo-European *skewb?-, see also Lithuanian skùbti (“to hurry”), Polish skuba? (“to pluck”), Albanian humb (“to lose”).

Germanic cognates include Low German kuffen (“to box the ears”), German kuffen (“to thrash”). More at scuff, shove, scuffle.

Verb

cuff (third-person singular simple present cuffs, present participle cuffing, simple past and past participle cuffed)

1. (transitive) To hit, as a reproach, particularly with the open palm to the head; to slap.
   • [They] with their quills did all the hurt they could, / And cuff'd the tender chickens from their food.

2. (intransitive) To fight; to scuffle; to box.

   • While the peers cuff to make the rabble sport.

3. To buffet.

   • cuffed by the gale

Translations

Noun

cuff (plural cuffs)

1. A blow, especially with the open hand; a box; a slap.
   • many a bitter kick and cuff

Etymology 3

Noun

cuff (plural cuffs)

1. (Scotland) The scruff of the neck.