wallop

• vt. 猛擊；痛打；擊潰
• vi. 猛衝；顛簸；沸騰
• n. 衝擊力；重擊；快感
• n. (Wallop)人名；(泰)旺洛；(英)沃洛普

來自短語well leap,快跑，奔馳，該詞義見其拚寫異體詞gallop,由快跑引申詞義濺水的聲音，猛擊。

wallop

wallop: [14] Wallop and gallop are doublets – that is to say, they began life as the same word, but have gradually drifted apart. Their ultimate common source was Frankish *walahlaupan ‘jump well’. This was a compound verb formed from *wala ‘well’ and *hlaupan ‘jump’, a relative of English leap. This was borrowed into Old French as galoper, which gave English gallop.

But the northern dialect of Old French took it over as waloper, which is where English wallop comes from. This was originally used for ‘gallop’ (‘Came there king Charlemagne, as fast as his horse might wallop’. William Caxton, Four Sons of Aymon 1489), but after the acquisition of gallop it began to go steadily downhill semantically, helped on its way perhaps by its sound, suggestive of hitting.
=> gallop

wallop (v.)

late 14c., "to gallop," possibly from Old North French *waloper (13c., Old French galoper), from Frankish compound *walalaupan "to run well" (compare Old High German wela "well," see well (adv.); and Old Low Franconian loupon "to run, leap," from Proto-Germanic *hlaupan; see leap (v.)). The meaning "to thrash" (1820) and the noun meaning "heavy blow" (1823) may be separate developments, of imitative origin. Related: Walloped; walloping.

1. Grenville took another wallop plumb on the jaw.

格倫維爾又受了一拳，正中下巴。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Down he went with a wallop!

他轟隆一聲摔倒了!

來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》

3. With one brutal wallop, Clarke flattened him.

克拉克毫不留情地一拳把他打翻在地。

來自辭典例句

4. Phoenix: sign like a phoenix head on fly, a strong vision wallop.

鳳凰: 標誌猶如一隻鳳凰迎麵飛來, 有很強的視覺衝擊力.

來自互聯網

5. It was Vodka, and it packed quite a wallop.

那是伏特加, 勁很足.

來自互聯網