whacking
noun
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L330415 on Wikidata ↗adjective
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L333718 on Wikidata ↗Wiktionary
adj
- Exceptionally large; whopping (often followed by an adjective such as great or big).
“1762, Thomas Bridges, A Burlesque Translation of Homer, London: S. Hooper, 1772, Book 7 of Homer’s Iliad, p. 289, […] all our grannies tell us how He kill’d a whacking great dun cow;”
“1819, Olivia Clarke, The Irishwoman. A Comedy in Five Acts, London: H. Colburn, Act V, Scene 2, p. 80, […] these two whacking Irish boys, that I was telling you of just now, are posted at the hall door to seize the villain, and take him to pay his respects to the next sitting magistrate […]”
noun
- A beating.
- Alternative form of waacking (“dance style”).
verb
- present participle and gerund of whack