[-ING1.] The action of the verb WALLOP (in various senses).
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 514/2. Waloppynge, of horse, voloptacio.
1686. G. Stuart, Joco-Ser. Disc., 48. Oh—! Wae betide this galloping! I’ve got my fill of wallopping!
1837. Lover, Rory O’More, I. ii. 47. ‘And what is all this walloping for?’ ‘Why, sir, whin we have a bit of a fight, for fun,… his reverence sometimes hears of it, and comes av coorse.’
1833. M. Scott, Tom Cringle, xvi. (1859), 391. The water in the immediate neighbourhood seemed quite alive, from the rushing and walloping of numberless fishes.
1871. C. Gibbon, Lack of Gold, ii. Your father gied you a walloping for telling a lie.
