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lounder

verb, noun — 2 senses

lounder

verb

Etymology From Scots.

1

Northern England, UK, Archaic, Dialectal To beat; to deal a heavy blow; to whack

  • "But Father," said Jenny, "if they come to lounder ilk ither as they did last time, suld na I cry on you?”1821, Sir Walter Scott, Tales of my Landlord: Old Mortality:
  • Why is all this shame loundered on my head?1893, Robert Louis Stevenson, Catriona:
1 more example
  • And they a' laughed thegither, and I up wi' the belt, and I loundered them round the house and round the house, till one screamed and another screamed, and even their mother got to squeel loudest.1835, John Mackay Wilson, Wilson's Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative Tales:

lounder

noun

Etymology From Scots.

1

Northern England, UK, Archaic, Dialectal A heavy blow

  • Deed, my bonny lass, I'll hae a kiss for a' my trouble at least,' and he caught her by the waist ; but she geed him sic a lounder o' the side o' the heed, that she garr'd him reel again1822, Ronald M'Chronicle (pseud.), Legends of Scotland:
  • When he rose the third time, she struck him a lounder of the stick; the stick stuck to the dead man, and the hand stuck to the stick; and out they were.1890, John Francis Campbell, Popular Tales of the West Highlands: Orally Collected, page 222:
1 more example
  • He gave his lunzie sic a lounder As did the sillie man dumfounder.1827, William Tennant, Papistry storm'd: or, The Dingin' down o' the cathedral, page 14:

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