lounder

present singular third person lounders · participle present loundering · participle past loundered · past loundered

1. Northern EnglandUKarchaicdialectalTo beat; to deal a heavy blow; to whack

   Why is all this shame loundered on my head?

   1893, Robert Louis Stevenson, Catriona

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   "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

   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

plural lounders

1. Northern EnglandUKarchaicdialectalA heavy blow

   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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   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

   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