Posted by Ed Kiser on July 23, 2003 at 20:14:59 from 64.12.96.103 user Kisered.
---------- BSCH10.TXT
Dads don't wallop the hides off 'em I'll... Simon, you old
---------- PDCH2.TXT
bound for. And they'll wallop the life out of me if I don't find out."
---------- PDCH22.TXT
walloper. We're just browning it now."
---------- PMCH18.TXT
wallop too. That means it won't last long. Fine tomorrow. Gosh,
---------- SACH29.TXT
"A walloper," said Peggy.
---------- WDCH25.TXT
and run right across, that he do, bang wallop into old Bill's
---------- PPCH26.TXT
didn't know, they'd have gone ker-wallop over the crushing
---------- PMCH21.TXT
And then... Kerwallop, but that window did go up with a
---------- BSCH30.TXT
they go in the ditch clopwollop, and the next thing were that
---------- MLCH17.TXT
"Wolloping big beck," said Nancy. "I say, that's the sea over there."
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Interesting to see the variations of an expression. As Ransome
uses it, it appears here in several variants:
WOLLOP
WOLLOPER
CLOPWOLLOP
WOLLOPING
WALLOP
KER-WALLOP
KERWALLOP
WALLOPER
Note the first ones in the variant list are spelled with "o" in
"WOL", whereas in the last four, the spelling is with "a" in
"WAL".
Both spellings appear in BS.
In one case, the KER is a part of the word; in another case, it
is separated from the rest of the word with a hyphen.
Ed Kiser, South Florida