clout vs wallop

clout

noun
  • A blow with the hand. 

  • A clout nail. 

  • The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head. 

  • Influence or effectiveness, especially political. 

  • A home run. 

verb
  • To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout. 

  • To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole. 

  • To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree. 

  • To hit, especially with the fist. 

  • To join or patch clumsily. 

wallop

noun
  • A heavy blow, punch. 

  • anything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, whitewash. 

  • A thrill, emotionally excited reaction. 

  • A quick rolling movement; a gallop. 

  • A person's ability to throw such punches. 

  • An emotional impact, psychological force. 

verb
  • To wrap up temporarily. 

  • To flounder, wallow. 

  • To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise. 

  • To strike heavily, thrash soundly. 

  • To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle. 

  • To rush hastily. 

  • To trounce, beat by a wide margin. 

  • To eat or drink with gusto. 

  • To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server. 

How often have the words clout and wallop occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )