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lounder en · NOUN

Etymology

From Scots.

Meanings

  1. (Northern-England, UK, archaic, dialectal) A heavy blow
    • 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:
    • 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 again 1822, Ronald M'Chronicle (pseud.), Legends of Scotland:
    • 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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lounder en · VERB

Etymology

From Scots.

Meanings

  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:
    • 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:

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loundered Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
loundered Tense=Past lexicographic
loundering Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
lounders Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic