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wallop(2)(dictionary)
wallop(dictionary)

vogue (iou) and wallop(2) (iou)


vogue (iou)



vogue noun, adjective, & verb. L16.
[French from Italian voga rowing, Fashion, from vogare row, be going well.]
A. noun.
a. Natural bent or capacity. Only in L16.
b. General course or tendency; usual character or condition. E17-E18.
The principal place in popular esteem, the greatest currency or popular Success. L16-L18.
a. The approval or favour of a class or group. E17-E18.
b. The current opinion or belief; the General report or rumour. E17-M18.
a. Popularity (esp. short-lived), popular use or currency. Freq. in in vogue, into vogue, out of vogue. E17.
R. Ford Travelling in a carriage with post-horses was brought into vogue by the Bourbons. C. Beaton Sagging tail coats,..the remnants of a military Fashion that was still in vogue.
b. A prominent place in popular favour or Fashion; a period of such favour, esp. a short-lived one. L17.
J. Barzun The medical use of Hypnosis is enjoying a new vogue.
The prevailing Fashion; a thing in (esp. short-lived) favour at a particular time. M17.
J. Galsworthy The days of her prime, when a drawl was all the vogue. C. Lambert Before the war he..created a vogue for the Russian ballet.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Fashionable, currently in vogue. Freq. in vogue word. M17.
C. verb. Pres. pple & verbal noun vogueing, voguing.
verb trans. Estimate or reckon as something; (foll. by down or up) extol or disparage (a thing). M17-E18.
verb intrans. [from the Fashion magazine Vogue.] Perform a solo Dance with movements reminiscent of a Fashion model's posings and posturings. Freq. as vogueing, voguing verbal noun. L20.
voguer noun a person who vogues L20.
voguey adjective & noun (a) adjective = voguish; (b) noun (slang) a person aspiring to be fashionable, esp. one heavily influenced by the Fashion magazine Vogue: E20.
voguish adjective that is in vogue or temporarily fashionable E20.

wallop(2) (iou)



wallop verb. LME.
[Old Northern French waloper var. of Old & mod. French galoper, perh. blend of Frankish wala well and hlaupan run, ult. from Germanic. Cf. GALLOP verb, LEAP verb.]
I. verb intrans.
Gallop. Now dial. & colloq. LME.
R. Graves When I was a courser..That like the wind would wallop along.
Boil hard with a noisy bubbling. Now dial. L16.
N. Hawthorne An immense pot over the fire, surging and walloping with some kind of..stew.
Make noisy violent or heavy movements; move clumsily or convulsively; flounder. Now dial. & colloq. E18.
Of the heart or blood: pulsate (violently). Scot. M18.
Dangle, flap about; wobble. Scot. & dial. E19.
wallop in a tether Scot. (now rare or obsolete) be hanged.
II. verb trans.
Beat, thrash; strike violently, thump, whack. colloq. E19.
= GOLLOP verb. dial. & colloq. L19.
walloper noun (colloq.) (a) a person who or thing which wallops; (b) anything strikingly big of its kind; (c) Austral. a policeman: M19.