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(UK, dialectal, chiefly Northern England, archaic) 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?”
Why is all this shame loundered on my head?
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.
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
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.
He gave his lunzie sic a lounder As did the sillie man dumfounder.
Use lounder when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Lounder means (UK, dialectal, chiefly Northern England, archaic) To beat; to deal a heavy blow; to whack.
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
"But Father," said Jenny, "if they come to lounder ilk ither as they did last time, suld na I cry on you?”
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