wallopingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

副詞

walloping (comparative more walloping, superlative most walloping)

1. Used to emphasize the size or extent.

   a walloping big lie

名詞

walloping (plural wallopings)

1. A series of wallops or blows; a beating.
   • 1914, Booth Tarkington, Penrod, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC:

     And your father really believes that you're a decorous, well-trained young business man, and whenever you don't live up to that standard you get on his nerves and he thinks you need a walloping.

2. (figuratively, by extension) Verbal abuse.

   Synonym: tongue lashing

   For forgetting to pick up the package again, my boss gave me a walloping.

   • 2025 June 7, Maureen Dowd, “Clash of the Bilious Billionaires”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     But it might better be applied to Trump’s social media spat with Elon Musk. It’s hard to think of two pueri aeterni who are more deserving of a verbal walloping.

3. (figuratively, by extension) A thrashing, serious defeat.

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動詞

walloping

1. present participle and gerund of wallop