dot vs wallop

dot

verb
  • To punch (a person). 

  • To mark or diversify with small detached objects. 

  • To cover with small spots (of some liquid). 

  • To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to. 

  • To mark by means of dots or small spots. 

prep
  • Dot product of the previous vector and the following vector. 

noun
  • A symbol used for separating the fractional part of a decimal number from the whole part, for indicating multiplication or a scalar product, or for various other purposes. 

  • A small, round spot. 

  • buckshot, projectile from a "dotty" or shotgun 

  • A dot ball. 

  • One of the two symbols used in Morse code. 

  • A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period. 

  • A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ. 

  • Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen. 

  • A dowry. 

wallop

verb
  • To flounder, wallow. 

  • To wrap up temporarily. 

  • 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. 

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

  • A heavy blow, punch. 

  • A thrill, emotionally excited reaction. 

  • A quick rolling movement; a gallop. 

  • A person's ability to throw such punches. 

  • An emotional impact, psychological force. 

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