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whapper

whapper is the alternative form of whopper.

Meaning of whopper

Noun

whopper (plural whoppers)

  1. (informal) Something remarkably large.
    • I’d gone out pike fishing, bless you, never thinking of a trout, and when I saw that whopper on the end of my line, blest if it didn’t quite take me aback. Well, you see, he weighed twenty-six pound.1889, Jerome K. Jerome, chapter 17, in Three Men in a Boat […]
  2. (informal) An outrageous or blatant lie.
    • When he got done telling it there was one of them uncomfortable silences that comes, you know, when a person has been telling a whopper and you feel sorry for him and wish you could think of some way to change the subject and let him down easy, […]1894, Mark Twain, chapter XII, in Tom Sawyer Abroad

Forms of whapper

pluralwhappers

Questions about whapper

What is whapper the alternative form of?
Whapper is the alternative form of whopper.

Words near whapper in the dictionary

  1. Whannel
  2. Whanregarwen
  3. whant
  4. whap
  5. whapped
  6. whapper
  7. whappers
  8. whapping
  9. whaps
  10. whapuka
  11. whapuku

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whapper (page history and authors); whopper (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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