whackingn.
/ˈwakɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈ(h)wækɪŋ/ colloquial. The action of whack v.
1. attributive.1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 June 5/1 We turned away followed by the beaters, one of whom tucked his long whacking-stick under his chin.
a. Beating.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > [noun]
beating?c1225
quassation?a1425
bunchingc1440
tunsionc1440
hammering1563
pealing1582
flapping1629
pulsation1656
dousing1721
pummelling1755
pommelling1788
dunching1789
walloping1837
whacking1862
shit-kicking1954
beat-down1989
1862 Mrs. H. Wood Channings I. i Then take your whacking!
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Nov. 2/2 There is a sound of the whacking of staves and sticks.
b. transferred. A beating or defeat in a contest; a ‘thrashing’.
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society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > [noun] > losing or defeat
loss1548
thrashing1797
punishment1811
trouncing1867
gruelling1882
shut-out1889
slaughter1890
nong1903
caning1933
massacre1940
whacking1951
1951 Sport 27 Apr. 3/2 If Wednesday gets a whacking from Spurs this time..they can hardly grumble.
2. Dividing up or sharing.
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the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > [noun] > dividing and sharing out
partingc1330
departinga1340
divisionc1380
partition1429
departison1444
dividentc1450
skiftingc1450
partage1484
portiona1513
departition?c1530
dividend1535
portioning1556
reparting1574
repartment1574
parcery1582
sharing1598
apportion1628
compartition1636
department1677
dividing1719
whacking1851
partitionment1864
divide1873
share-out1877
whack1885
sharesies1916
carve-up1935
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 154/2 At last Long J-- and I got to quarrel about the ‘whacking’; there was cheatin' a goin' on.
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whackingadj.
/ˈwakɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈ(h)wækɪŋ/ colloquial.
That is a ‘whacker’; abnormally large; ‘thumping’, ‘whopping’. Often quasi-adverbial in whacking big, whacking great.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > very great
swappingc1440
bumping1566
thumping1576
swingeinga1592
knocking1598
gigantical1604
gigantine1605
gigantean1611
gigantal?1614
thundering1618
whoppinga1625
humming1654
rapping1657
whisking1673
threshing1707
sousing1735
nation1765
heroic1785
runaway1790
spanking1791
gigantic1797
whacking1797
cracking1834
ringing1834
bouncing1842
walloping1847
stavingc1850
banging1864
howling1865
whooping1866
smacking1888
God almighty1913
Christ almighty1961
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] > exceptionally large of its kind
gurta1400
swappingc1440
swappit?a1513
strongc1540
thwacking1567
thumping1576
bouncing1579
swingeinga1592
whoppinga1625
rapping1657
spankinga1666
whisking1673
swagging1731
skelping?a1786
whacking1797
slapping1825
plumping1832
walloping1847
slashing1854
smacking1888
plonking1896
sollicking1946
1797 T. Bridges Burlesque Transl. Homer (ed. 4) II. vii. 28 Whose arm could whirl so thick a club, That all our grannies tell us how He kill'd a whacking great dun cow.
1806 J. Davis Post-Captain iv. 19 She looks..like a whacking frigate.
1819 J. Thomson Poems Sc. Dial. (new ed.) 201 A whakin' fee gets tauld them down for sorry haet, I trow.
1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward I. Introd. p. ix A certain whacking priest in our neighbourhood.
1829 W. Scott Jrnl. 16 Apr. (1946) 52 This whacking reason.
1853 G. J. Cayley Las Alforjas II. 193 We saw a whacking great building.
1873 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London 91 A good whacking kiss that echoed all over the archway.
1926 ‘N. Shute’ Marazan v. 144 Two whacking great motor boats each as big as a Navy pinnace.
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n.1851adj.1797