different between wallower vs walloper

English

Etymology

wallow +? -er

Noun

wallower (plural wallowers)

1. Agent noun of wallow; one who wallows.
2. (dated, engineering) A lantern wheel; a trundle.

Anagrams

• rewallow

English

Etymology

From wallop +? -er.

Pronunciation

Noun

walloper (plural wallopers)

1. One who wallops.
2. (Ireland) A cudgel, a shillelagh.
3. (Scotland, slang, derogatory, vulgar) penis; (by extension) an idiot, a stupid person.
4. (Australia, slang, humorous) A policeman, a male police officer.
   • 1950, Frank Hardy, Power Without Glory,

     Police! Everyone out! The bloody wallopers are on their way!

   • 1971, John O'Grady, Dealing with Cops, in Aussie Etiket, quoted in 1988, Aussie Humour, Macmillan, ?ISBN, page 200,

     Uniformed cops are generally known as ‘wallopers’, and cops in plain clothes are called ‘demons’. These latter, supposed to be disguised, are instantly recognisable.

   • 2006, Andrew Stafford, Pig City: From the Saints to Savage Garden, page 106,

     Understandably the wallopers were called, and they cleared everybody out.

Synonyms

• (police officer): see Thesaurus:police officer

Derived terms

• dock walloper
• pot-walloper

Anagrams

• rope wall