Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
walloper .
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Examples
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"Go ahead with your 'angin', you bloomin 'old pot-wolloper!"
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"Go ahead with your 'angin', you bloomin 'old pot-wolloper!"
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"Go ahead with your 'angin', you bloomin 'old pot - wolloper!"
The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke Jack London 1896
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Higgins by name, a seaman by profession and pull, but a pot-wolloper by capacity, he was a loose-jointed, sniffling creature, heartless and selfish and cowardly, without a soul, in fear of his life of Dan Cullen, and a bully over the sailors, who knew that behind the mate was Captain
When God Laughs: and other stories Jack London 1896
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