whomper
UK/ˈwɒmp.ə(ɹ)/US/ˈwɑm.pɚ/
whomper noun: one who or that which whomps.
Noun
whomper (plural whompers)
- One who or that which whomps.
- A magazine columnist found proof of this some time ago when he printed an item stating that Richard Widmark was not at all a hard guy, but a gentle, scholarly chap who wouldn’t hurt a fly, let alone an old lady. […] Fans wrote in by the hundreds calling the columnist a liar, demanding retraction...1952 August, William Barbour, “They Want Him Bad”, in Modern Screen, volume 45, number 3, page 42
- “I see a quick light in many a^([sic]) eye here. And well you might look smart, for these two beauties is bear killers, wolf whompers and gut rippers made with my own hands.[…]”1962, Bruce Palmer, John Clifford Giles, Horseshoe Bend, New York: Simon and Schuster, page 197
- A whopper; something remarkably large or intense.
- They stretched her between them so that it all hung out, and then, swinging her chest over the faces of the unconscious, they tried to tit everybody awake. She had hogans, two turgid glands of them. Real whompers. Her tits cascaded all over their faces like soft, brown punching bags.1973, Mark McGarrity, Lucky Shuffles, Grossman Publishers, →ISBN, page 96
- De only modern convenience dat dey got is dem old strips of auto tire dat dey wears for shoes when dey comes up to Georgetown, what dey calls "whompers." Dat right, Wodie?1975, Peter Matthiessen, Far Tortuga, Random House, →ISBN, page 239
Adjective
whomper (not comparable)
- Large or intense; great; bumper.
- You got a caterer?
I got a whomper raise. […]2005, T. M. McNelly, The Goat Bridge, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 213 - Becca's cheeks were pale, her eyes smudged. After the whomper headache she'd had yesterday, Mia sympathized.2006, Lynn Michaels, Marriage by Design, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 214
- You got a caterer?
Examples of whomper in a sentence
- (Orson Oliphant landed in a town full of whap-whompers and stamp-stompers.2009, Katherine Hannigan, Emmaline and the Bunny, Greenwillow Books, →ISBN, page 83:
- Or did he have the roughest year any 48-homer whomper ever had?2009, Jason Stark, “One Win Away”, in Worth the Wait: Tales of the 2008 Phillies, Chicago, Illinois: Triumph Books, →ISBN, page 186:
- All she has to do is sing and flop those big old whompers of hers around and she gets everything she ever wanted — money, recording contracts, TV, the works.1989 January, Bernard Schopen, The Big Silence, The Mysterious Press, →ISBN, page 184:
- It is the second week of December, and we are about to get a whomper.2012, Michael Perry, Visiting Tom: A Man, a Highway, and the Road to Roughneck Grace, Harper, →ISBN, page 171:
Forms of whomper
| plural | whompers |
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Origin of whomper
From whomp + -er. Compare with whopper.
Words that rhyme with whomper
Questions about whomper
- What does whomper mean?
- Whomper means one who or that which whomps.
- How do you use whomper in a sentence?
- (Orson Oliphant landed in a town full of whap-whompers and stamp-stompers.
- What part of speech is whomper?
- Whomper can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce whomper?
- Whomper is pronounced /ˈwɒmp.ə(ɹ)/ (UK).
- What is the plural of whomper?
- The plural of whomper is whompers.
Words near whomper in the dictionary
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