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whoppings

whoppings is the plural of whopping.

Meaning of whopping

Noun

whopping (plural whoppings)

  1. 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...

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What is whoppings the plural of?
Whoppings is the plural of whopping.

Words near whoppings in the dictionary

  1. whopperjawed
  2. whoppers
  3. whopping
  4. whoppingest
  5. whoppingly
  6. whoppings
  7. whops
  8. whopstraw
  9. whopstraws
  10. whorage
  11. whorages

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