wale on

English

Etymology

See wale (“mark with welts”).

Verb

wale on (third-person singular simple present wales on, present participle waling on, simple past and past participle waled on)

1. (slang) Alternative form of whale on
   • 1990 August 19, Jan Hoffman, “Pregnant, Addicted - and Guilty?”, in The New York Times Magazine:

     "One of my coke babies had retinal damage and seizures and to me that is just as severe as somebody waling on a kid," she says.

   • 1997, Gary Soto, Buried Onions, page 43:

     I figured that if he was there, I would let him wale on me as a sort of punishment, wale on me just for a few seconds before I started my action and hit back.

   • 1999, Linda M. Bullard, Shades of Justice, page 131:

     She tears into him, fists waling on him like paddle wheels.