| 释义 |
whacker colloq.|ˈhwækə(r)|
[f. whack v. + -er1.]
1. a. A heavy blow. dial.
1823E. Moor Suffolk Words 477 Whacker, a blow, a thump.
b. A driver of animals, a drover. U.S.
1880Harper's Mag. LX. 679 The whacker's long whip cracking..as he lashes his unwieldy beasts [sc. oxen] into position. 1889H. O'Reilly Fifty Yrs. on Trail xvi. 172 To search round for bull-whackers to drive them over.
2. Anything abnormally large of its kind; esp. a ‘thumping’ lie; a ‘whopper’.
1825Brockett N.C. Gloss., Whacker, a lie. 1828Sporting Mag. (N.S.) XXII. 416 Though the fences are whackers, the brooks they are small. 1857Hughes Tom Brown ii. iv, Oh, there's a whacker!..we haven't been within a hundred yards of his barn. 1872J. R. Green Let. to E. A. Freeman 18 Sept., The Dome which ought to be a whacker is a poor wee thing. |