| 释义 |
walloper colloq. or jocular.|ˈwɒləpə(r)|
[f. wallop v. + -er1.]
1. a. One who thrashes. b. Anything with which one administers a thrashing; a stick.
1832Barrington Personal Sk. III. xviii. 256 Armed with his ‘walloper’ (as they called their cudgel).
2. dial. Anything strikingly large or big; a ‘thumper’, ‘whopper’; e.g. an astounding lie. (See Eng. Dial. Dict.)
3. As second element in compounds. cod-walloper, a cod-fishing vessel (Cent. Dict.); dock-walloper, see dock n.3 7. Also potwalloper.
4. Austral. slang. A policeman.
1945Baker Austral. Lang. vii. 137 We also call a policeman a..walloper. 1954Coast to Coast 1953–4 175 A showman he was. Knock-around man. Always two jumps ahead of the wallopers. 1968D. O'Grady Bottle of Sandwiches 54 Roebourne boasted one pub, one police station with two wallopers in it,..and a hospital. 1981Bulletin (Sydney) 13 Jan. 391, I could quite happily call them my friends. I could never think of them as wallopers. |