1816. Scott, Antiquary, xxx. She wallopped away with all the grace of triumph.
Walloping, adj. (common).—Great, bouncing. Also walloper = anything superlative: see Whopper.
1903. Hyne, Filibusters, xix. One day I got a bit of a cheerer. I came upon a wallopping great stone, which I found that with a bit of a push would move.
WALLYFORD, subs. (Loretto).—The usual run on a wet whole schoolday: about 3-1/2 miles.
Waltham's-calf. As wise as Waltham's calf, phr. (old).—Very foolish.
d. 1529. Skelton, Colin Clout. . . . As wyse as Waltham's calf . . . He can nothing smatter Of logicke nor scole matter.
1567. Disclosing of the great Bull [Harl. Misc., vii. 535]. Some running and gadding calves, wiser than Waltham's Calfe that ranne nine miles to sucke a bull.
Waltz. To waltz about (or ROUND), verb. phr. (common).—To move in a sprightly fashion, to buzz round. Also to fuss about, make oneself a nuisance.
Wamble-cropped, adj. phr. (colloquial).—Wretched, humiliated: also WOMBLE-CROPPED.
18[?]. Widow Bedott Papers, 284. The Captain looked so awful womble-CROPT that I pitied him. I never saw such an uncomfortable-looking countenance.
1848. Major Downing, Letter from Baton Rouge, June 15. I never saw Captain Jumper so wilted down before, and that made me feel so wamble-cropt I could not say a word.
Wame. To nail twa wames thegither, verb. phr. (Scots venery).—To copulate: see Greens and Ride. [Wame = belly.] Hence to get the wame up = to be got with child, to be LUMPY (q.v.).
1568. Bannatyne MSS., 'The Use o. Court' (Hunt. Club), 765. Vp gettis her wame, Scho thinkis no schame For to bring name The laird ane herne.
Wand, subs. (venery).—The penis: see Prick (Dunelm).
Wanger. See Whanger.
Wanion, subs. (old).—Misfortune, calamity, mischief, a curse. Thus with (or in) a wanion = (1) 'Mischief take you,' 'Blast you'; with a vengeance; and hence (2) summarily, emphatically: also Wanions on you! [Cf. M. E. waniand (with quots.) = the waning of the moon, and spec. regarded as presaging ill-luck.]
[1362. York Plays, 124. Be they kyngis or knyghtis, in care e thaim cast; aa, and welde tham in woo to wonne, in THE WANYAND.]
[c. 1401. Townley Mysteries, 241. Oliphant, New Eng., i. 202. There is the strange phrase in the wenyande; in the unlucky time when the moon wanes; hence the curse, 'with a wanion.']
1549. Latimer, Sermons, 36b. Was not this a good prelate? He should have beene at home preaching in his dioces with a wannion.
1570. Fox, Eccles. Hist., II. 457. 1. The pope—sent into France Hildebrand, his cardinal chaplaine (as meet a mate for such a feat, as was in all Satan's court), and made him with a wanie to come againe coram nobis.
1605. Jonson, Eastward Ho, iii. 2. Marry, hang you, westward, with a wanion to you. Ibid. (1625), Staple of News, iii. 5. Act fables of false news, in this manner, to the super vexation of town and country, with a wanion.
