Talk:wallop
My father, (b 1909, Kings Cross,and with connections with the East Midlands) used the word "wallop" for anything produced by a process that involved boiling; beer, tea and especially whitewash (or in later years emulsion paint). It was always "wallop" that went on the walls, in fact they were "walloped". Interestingly the terms "wallop" and "whitewash" have similar meanings in sport (to whitewash is to win without your opponent scoring a point).
A possibly related term is "give them the brush", although that may be related to fox- hunting, with the inference that they played like novices; or simply that they were "brushed off".
RFV discussion: December 2021–January 2022
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Rfv-sense: To be slatternly. Notusbutthem (talk) 22:33, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 19:41, 2 January 2022 (UTC)