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▪ I. † wham, n.1 Obs. nonce-wd.
[A factitious word made by altering the vowel of whim.]
A whimsical or fantastic person.
1691Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 253 The Author of it was a whim and a wham, a Fellow that invented ridiculous Principles.
▪ II. wham, n.2 colloq.|hwæm|
[Echoic. Cf. wham v.]
1. A heavy blow; the sound of a heavy blow (or of an explosion, etc.). Also, a resounding success, a ‘knock-out’; an attempt at something (cf. whack n. 1 b).
1923N.Y. Times 9 Sept. vii. 2 Wham, a success, a knock-out. 1924Dialect Notes V. 257 Onomatopoetic words..bam, blam, ca-blam, slam, wham, zam..(all = sound of blow). 1949J. R. Cole It was so Late 90 The occasional echoing wham of a charge of gelly. 1957‘J. Wyndham’ Midwich Cuckoos iv. 38 Might be a good idea to have a wham at it. 1973C. Bonington Next Horizon viii. 121 Have another try... This time the peg held, another half-dozen whams of the hammer, and it was in to the hilt.
2. As int. or adv.: with a wham.
1924E. Hemingway In our Time 10 The bull rammed him wham against the wall. 1934J. M. Cain Postman always rings Twice xi. 126 And then, wham, I pleaded her guilty. 1948‘J. Tey’ Franchise Affair viii. 90 They go that short step too far and wham! out comes that business-like paw. 1958P. Mortimer Daddy's gone a-Hunting xxx. 170 He..walked through the front door and wham. She did it with a clock. 1965M. Frayn Tin Men xxvi. 144 When the iron was hot, wham!—he would come out like a tiger and knock it for six. 1975A. Ayckbourn Norman Conquests 5 It was just wham, thump and there we both were on the rug.
▪ III. wham, v. colloq.|hwæm|
[Echoic. Cf. wham n.2]
1. trans. To strike violently; to propel with great force, by hitting, throwing, kicking, etc. Also fig.
1925Sat. Even. Post 14 Feb. 16 The wow finish, properly, is the legitimate successor to the old apple-sauce flag-waving finish for whamming an audience. 1930E. Ferber Cimarron xxi. 349 Standing Bear whams it out so straight and so far that he makes the [golf] pro look like a ping-pong player. 1933J. Thurber My Life & Hard Times iv. 57 She..picked up a shoe, and whammed it through a pane of glass across the narrow space that separated the two houses. 1950A. Buckeridge Jennings goes to School xii. 239 You must have put all your weight behind it, or you wouldn't have gone down flat like that, after you'd whammed it in. 1951Sport 7–13 Jan. 15/2 Basically the same team, which had been languishing generally on the wrong side,..whammed in six against Derry. 1962–3E. Birney Sel. Poems (1966) ii. 59 Nine shoeboys wham their boxes Slap at my newshined feet. 1971C. Bonington Annapurna South Face xiii. 161 He whammed in the ice-hammer, pulled up on it, kicking with the two front points of his crampons into the ice.
2. intr. To pound or strike violently; to move with speed, violence, or noise. Also fig.
1948W. C. Williams in Poetry June 147 Each time he'd swing the axe and I heard it wham into the wood, I'd let out a wild cackle of delight. 1948D. Ballantyne Cunninghams 135 The nausea rushes that made his head wham. 1954A. C. Clarke Silence Please in Tales from White Hart (1957) 3 Bert's blast whammed overhead. 1962K. Kesey One flew over Cuckoo's Nest i. 51 The black boy whammed flat against the wall and stuck, then slid down to the floor. 1973P. White Eye of Storm xii. 586 A partition of the door still in motion whammed against an ear and sent his hat spinning. 1980Daily Tel. 27 Aug. 2 (Advt.), The incredible Casio FX39..whams through complicated equations and elementary statistical formulae.
▪ IV. wham
Sc. and north. dial. form of whom. |