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lounder

lounder verb: to beat; to deal a heavy blow; to whack.

Verb

lounder (third-person singular simple present lounders, present participle loundering, simple past and past participle loundered)

  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

Noun

lounder (plural lounders)

  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

Examples of lounder in a sentence

  • 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:
  • 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:

Forms of lounder

Verb
third-person singular presentlounders
present participleloundering
past participleloundered
pastloundered
Noun
plurallounders

Origin of lounder

From Scots.

Questions about lounder

What does lounder mean?
Lounder means to beat; to deal a heavy blow; to whack.
How do you use lounder in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is lounder?
Lounder can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of lounder?
The past tense of lounder is loundered.

Words near lounder in the dictionary

  1. loulus
  2. louma
  3. loumas
  4. loun
  5. Lound
  6. lounder
  7. loundered
  8. loundering
  9. lounderings
  10. lounders
  11. louned

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