单词 | walloper |
释义 | wallopern. colloquial or jocular. 1. Categories » a. One who thrashes. b. Anything with which one administers a thrashing; a stick. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] castigatorya1641 walloper1832 slappera1886 1832 J. Barrington Personal Sketches Own Times III. 256 Armed with his ‘walloper’ (as they called their cudgel). Categories » 2. dialect. Anything strikingly large or big; a ‘thumper’, ‘whopper’; e.g. an astounding lie. (See Eng. Dial. Dict.) Categories » 3. As second element in compounds.cod-, dock-, potwalloper: see the first element. 4. Australian slang. A policeman. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman truncheon officer1708 runner1735 horny1753 nibbing-cull1775 nabbing-cull1780 police officer1784 police constable1787 policeman1788 scout1789 nabman1792 nabber1795 pig1811 Bow-street officer1812 nab1813 peeler1816 split1819 grunter1823 robin redbreast1824 bulky1828 raw (or unboiled) lobster1829 Johnny Darm1830 polis1833 crusher1835 constable1839 police1839 agent1841 johndarm1843 blue boy1844 bobby1844 bluebottle1845 copper1846 blue1848 polisman1850 blue coat1851 Johnny1851 PC1851 spot1851 Jack1854 truncheonist1854 fly1857 greycoat1857 cop1859 Cossack1859 slop1859 scuffer1860 nailerc1863 worm1864 Robert1870 reeler1879 minion of the law1882 ginger pop1887 rozzer1888 nark1890 bull1893 grasshopper1893 truncheon-bearer1896 John1898 finger1899 flatty1899 mug1903 John Dunn1904 John Hop1905 gendarme1906 Johnny Hop1908 pavement pounder1908 buttons1911 flat-foot1913 pounder1919 Hop1923 bogy1925 shamus1925 heat1928 fuzz1929 law1929 narker1932 roach1932 jonnop1938 grass1939 roller1940 Babylon1943 walloper1945 cozzer1950 Old Bill1958 cowboy1959 monaych1961 cozzpot1962 policeperson1965 woolly1965 Fed1966 wolly1970 plod1971 roz1971 Smokey Bear1974 bear1975 beast1978 woodentop1981 Five-O1983 dibble1990 Bow-street runner- 1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. vii. 137 We also call a policeman a..walloper. 1954 Coast to Coast 1953–4 175 A showman he was. Knock-around man. Always two jumps ahead of the wallopers. 1968 D. O'Grady Bottle of Sandwiches 54 Roebourne boasted one pub, one police station with two wallopers in it,..and a hospital. 1981 Bulletin (Sydney) 13 Jan. 391 I could quite happily call them my friends. I could never think of them as wallopers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1832 |
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