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wallop
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)
- A heavy blow, punch.
- A person's ability to throw such punches.
- An emotional impact, psychological force.
- A thrill, emotionally excited reaction.
- (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."
- 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four,
- (archaic) A thick piece of fat.
- (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)
- (intransitive) To rush hastily.
- (intransitive) To flounder, wallow.
- To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Brockett to this entry?)
- (transitive) To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
- (transitive) To trounce, beat by a wide margin.
- (transitive) To wrap up temporarily.
- To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
- To be slatternly.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
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)
- (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
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dong
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??/
- Rhymes: -??
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Vietnamese ??ng, from Middle Chinese ? (duwng, “copper”) (compare Mandarin ? (tóng)), from Old Chinese ? (*l?o?).
Noun
dong (plural dongs or dong)
- The currency of Vietnam, 100 xus. Symbol: ?
Translations
Etymology 2
Origin unknown. Perhaps from The Dong with a Luminous Nose, an 1894 poem by Edward Lear about a mythical creature. Attested since the 1930s.
Noun
dong (plural dongs)
- (slang) A penis.
- 1983, "Penis Song" (from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life)
- Isn't it awfully nice to have a penis?
Isn't it frightfully good to have a dong?
- Isn't it awfully nice to have a penis?
- 1983, "Penis Song" (from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life)
- (slang, by extension) A dildo, specifically a synthetic anatomical replica of the penis.
Synonyms
- (penis): See Thesaurus:penis.
Related terms
- ding-dong
Etymology 3
Onomatopoeic
Noun
dong (plural dongs)
- Onomatopoeia for the ringing sound made by a bell with a low pitch.
Translations
Verb
dong (third-person singular simple present dongs, present participle donging, simple past and past participle donged)
- Of a bell: to make a low-pitched ringing sound.
Etymology 4
Korean ?(?) (dong, “neighborhood”)
Noun
dong (plural dongs)
- A submunicipal administrative unit of a city in North or South Korea.
Anagrams
- Gond, gnod
Ambonese Malay
Etymology
Syncope of dorang.
Pronoun
dong
- they
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??/
- Hyphenation: dong
- Rhymes: -??
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch *dong, from Old Dutch *dunga, from Proto-Germanic *dung?. Cognate to English dung.
Noun
dong m (uncountable)
- (dated, dialectal, Northern) dung, manure
- Synonym: mest
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Vietnamese ??ng.
Noun
dong m (plural dongs)
- dong, the currency of Vietnam
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
dong
- singular past indicative of dingen
Hungarian
Etymology
From an onomatopoeia + -g (frequentative verb-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?do??]
- Rhymes: -o??
- Homophone: ??ng
Verb
dong
- (intransitive, of an insect) to buzz, bumble, drone
- (intransitive, of a large hollow object) to boom, rumble, thunder (to make a dull, low-pitched, reverberating sound when hit)
Conjugation
or
Derived terms
- dongás
- dongó
(With verbal prefixes):
See also
- ??ng (“currency of Vietnam”)
References
Further reading
- dong in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
- dong in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2021)
Mandarin
Romanization
dong
- Nonstandard spelling of d?ng.
- Nonstandard spelling of d?ng.
- Nonstandard spelling of dòng.
Usage notes
- English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
Middle English
Noun
dong
- Alternative form of donge
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
dong m (definite singular dongen, indefinite plural donger, definite plural dongene)
- (slang) condom
Portuguese
Noun
dong m (plural dongs)
- dong (currency of Vietnam)
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà N?i) IPA(key): [zaw??m??]
- (Hu?) IPA(key): [jaw??m??]
- (H? Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [jaw??m??]
Verb
dong
- drive, escort
Noun
(classifier cây) dong
- Phrynium placentarium
Westrobothnian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ù??
Etymology
From dyngj.
Noun
dong m (definite dongen)
- droppings, especially in a pen, especially sheep droppings mixed with straw residue, bedding and hay motes, which the sheep lie on in the sheep barn
Zou
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /do??/
Verb
dong
- (transitive) to solicit
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /do??/
Verb
dong
- (transitive) to intercept
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /do???/
Verb
dóng
- (transitive) to hinder
Etymology 4
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /do???/
Verb
dòng
- (intransitive) to ask
References
- Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 63
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