whopping
Syllables: whop·pingUK/ˈ(h)wɒpɪŋ//ˈ(h)wɑpɪŋ/
whopping adjective: exceptionally great or large. Also the present participle and gerund of whop.
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Adjective
whopping (not comparable)
- Exceptionally great or large.
- It weighed a whopping 700 pounds when it was full.
- [H]e went his way rejoicing—an eccentric, sun-browned, good-natured, athletic man, with no strong affection for anything except his rifle, and a predilection for relating "whopping" stories of his travels, and incidents of adventure which no mortal since the days of Baron Munchausen could have...1852, Henry Howard Paul, “Old Dan of Connecticut River”, in Dashes of American Humour, London: Piper Brothers and Co., Paternoster Row, →OCLC, page 37
- Synonyms:
- large
Adverb
whopping (not comparable)
- Exceedingly, extremely, very.
- Is she doing a tango? A buck and wing? A soulful modern ballet? No, Joan Crawford is having a whopping good time learning judo, the Japanese art of self-defense, for her new movie, The Caretakers. Joan plays a nurse who uses judo holds to subdue unruly patients in a mental hospital.1962 September 28, “Shall We Dance? Thud!”, in Life, volume 53, number 13, Chicago, Ill.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 57
- Doss and I run the house, cooking dinner—whopping great pots of stew and rice, sewing and darning clothes, ironing, bathing the kids, blacking the grate, scrubbing the doorstep, running errands.2000, James Riordan, When the Guns Fall Silent, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
Noun
whopping (plural whoppings)
- A beating.
- When I saw Dr. Vaughan, he was excessively kind, and told me that he was exceedingly sorry that I should have got into a mess with any of the monitors, and that, as far as he heard, I was to blame in what I had said, and so he should advise me to take the whopping, as there was no cowardice in...1854 May 20, “The Monitorial System of Harrow School. From the Literary Gazette.”, in E[liakim] Littel, editor, Littel’s Living Age, volume V (Second Series; volume XLI from the start), number DXXII...
- At least this taught me to hate violence which to me translated into thick ears or sound whoppings on the behind.2013 April, Frederic H. Finnis, chapter 1, in Turning Back the Pages 1993–1923, Victoria, B.C.: FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 6
Also used as
whopping is also the present participle and gerund of whop.
Examples of whopping in a sentence
- Abraham told a whopping lie to secure our patronage, by saying, our countryman, a gentleman who had preceded us by about a week, had left special directions for him to wait upon us.1852, Jerome V[an] C[roninsfield] Smith, “Smyrna”, in Turkey and the Turks: Or, Travels in Turkey, Boston, Mass.: F. Gleason's Publishing...
- Long hypodermic fangs deliver a whopping dose of venom.2009, John Kricher, “For the Love of Biodiversity (and Stable Ecosystems?)”, in The Balance of Nature: Ecology’s Enduring Myth, Princeton...
- If you weigh 100 pounds on Earth, Earth's gravity is pulling you down with 100 pounds of force. […] On our massive Sun, you'd weigh a whopping 2,800 pounds!2013, Agnieszka Biskup, “Forcing the Issue”, in Jennifer Besel, editor, The Gripping Truth about Forces and Motion (Fact Finders. LOL...
- Now Mr [Donald] Trump has revealed the size of his planned infrastructure programme, and it's a whopping $1 trillion.2017 March 1, Anthony Zurcher, “Trump addresses Congress: A kinder, gentler president”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 05 Jun...
Synonyms of whopping
Forms of whopping
| plural | whoppings |
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Origin of whopping
whop (verb) + -ing.
Words that rhyme with whopping
- topping
- shopping
- stopping
- cropping
- dropping
- chopping
- clopping
- hopping
- lopping
- mopping
- popping
- bopping
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Questions about whopping
- What does whopping mean?
- Whopping means exceptionally great or large.
- How do you use whopping in a sentence?
- Abraham told a whopping lie to secure our patronage, by saying, our countryman, a gentleman who had preceded us by about a week, had left special directions for him to wait upon us.
- What part of speech is whopping?
- Whopping can be an adjective, an adverb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce whopping?
- Whopping is pronounced /ˈ(h)wɒpɪŋ/ (UK).
Words near whopping in the dictionary
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