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Plural of whipping

regular plural

The plural of whipping is whippings.

Forms of whipping

Singularwhipping /ˈwɪpɪŋ/
Pluralwhippings
Countablecountable and uncountable

Whippings in a sentence

  • Whenever a line or hawser has to be cut, whippings should be put on first.1999, Marine Crewman's Handbook: Field Manual 55-501, US Dept of the Army
  • As the whipping boy, he must take the whippings for the royal heir, Prince Brat.From the entry whipping boy

Meaning of whipping

  1. noun The punishment of being whipped.
  2. noun A heavy defeat; a thrashing.
  3. noun A cooking technique in which air is incorporated into cream to produce whipped cream.

Full definition of whipping

Questions about the plural of whipping

What is the plural of whipping?
The plural of whipping is whippings.
Is whipping countable?
Whipping is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whipping (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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