different between wallop vs jab

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

Etymology

Originally a Scottish (unclear if Scots or Scottish English) form of English job (“peck, poke, thrust”), from Middle English jobben.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?æb/
• Rhymes: -æb

Noun

jab (plural jabs)

1. A quick stab or blow; a poking or thrusting motion.
   • 1952, Bernard Malamud, The Natural, Chapter 9,

     He tore in for the ball, make a running jab for it and held it.

2. (boxing) A short straight punch.
3. (Britain) A medical hypodermic injection (vaccination or inoculation)

   Our dog was exposed to rabies, so the whole family went to a clinic to get our jabs.

4. (Britain, Australia) A vaccination, whether or not delivered via conventional injection.
5. (US, figuratively) A mild verbal insult.

Derived terms

• jabby

Translations

Verb

jab (third-person singular simple present jabs, present participle jabbing, simple past and past participle jabbed)

1. To poke or thrust abruptly, or to make such a motion.
2. To deliver a quick punch.
3. (slang, Britain) To give someone an injection

Translations

References

Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “jab”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English job.

Noun

jab m (genitive singular jab, nominative plural jabanna)

1. job, piece of work
2. post, employment

Declension

Derived terms

• jabaire m (“(cattle-)jobber”)

References

• "jab" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English jab.

Noun

jab m (invariable)

1. jab (boxing punch)

Spanish

Noun

jab m (plural jabs)

1. (boxing) jab