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▪ I. whacking, vbl. n. colloq.|ˈhwækɪŋ|
[f. whack v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb whack.
1. a. Beating.
1862Mrs. H. Wood Channings i, Then take your whacking! 1887Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Nov. 2/2 There is a sound of the whacking of staves and sticks.
attrib.1886Pall Mall Gaz. 19 June 5/1 We turned away followed by the beaters, one of whom tucked his long whacking-stick under his chin.
b. transf. A beating or defeat in a contest; a ‘thrashing’.
1951Sport 27 Apr.–3 May 3/2 If Wednesday gets a whacking from Spurs this time..they can hardly grumble.
2. Dividing up or sharing.
1851Mayhew Lond. Labour II. 154 At last Long J― and I got to quarrel about the ‘whacking’; there was cheatin' a-goin' on.
▪ II. whacking, ppl. a. colloq.|ˈhwækɪŋ|
[f. whacker + -ing2.]
That is a ‘whacker’; abnormally large; ‘thumping’, ‘whopping’.
Often quasi-advb. in whacking big, whacking great.
1806J. Davis Post Captain iv. 19 She looks..like a whacking frigate. 1819J. Thomson Poems (ed. 2) 201 A whakin' fee gets tauld them down for sorry haet, I trow. 1823Scott Quentin D. Introd. ⁋7 A certain whacking priest in our neighbourhood. 1829― Jrnl. 16 Apr. (1890) II. 268 This whacking reason. 1853G. J. Cayley Las Alforjas II. 193 We saw a whacking great building. 1873C. M. Davies Unorth. Lond., Walworth Jumpers 91 A good whacking kiss that echoed all over the archway. |