whoppingn.
/ˈhwɒpɪŋ/ colloquial or vulgar.
The action of whop v.; a severe beating or flogging; hence, an overwhelming defeat. Also attributive.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > beating
swingingc1200
beating?c1225
chastising1303
correctionc1386
lashingc1400
scouring1426
Moses' law1482
jerking1552
whipping1566
yarking1573
feaking1600
correct1606
tawing1620
lacing1622
castigation1640
basking1642
verberation1661
strappado1668
the lash1694
flogging1758
whopping1812
quilting1822
blistering1842
whaling1852
nailing1895
society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > beating > instance of
threshingOE
fustigation1428
breeching1520
trouncingc1550
bace1575
firking1594
belting1602
knave's grease1602
oil of baston1604
oil of birch1604
oil of hazel1604
oil of holly1604
oil of whip1604
lamb-pie1607
lamming1611
drubbing1650
vapulation1656
warming1681
floggation1688
working over1695
cullis1719
thrashing1720
halberd1756
licking1756
dressing1769
leathering1790
nointing1794
dusting1799
teasing1807
hiding1809
whopping1812
thrumming1823
toco1823
flaking1829
teaser1832
lathering1835
welting1840
pasting1851
towelling1851
whaling1852
hickory oil1855
swishing1859
slating1860
going-over1881
six of the best1912
belt beating1928
ass-kicking1943
stomping1958
seeing to1968
butt-kicking1970
1812 Sporting Mag. 39 139 An athletic Nottinghamshire man, who..gave very unfavourable specimens of wapping talent.
1818 Sporting Mag. (N.S.) 2 189 He wanted a good wapping and he had got it.
1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist III. xli. 104 I should like to..have the whopping of 'em.
1885 R. C. Praed Head Station xvii Blue-eyed fair-haired little girls who never fell into tantrums or wanted whopping.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1924; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
whoppingadj.
colloquial or vulgar.
That whops; almost always figurative, that is a ‘whopper’; abnormally large or great; ‘whacking’, ‘thumping’. Rarely spec. (a) monstrously false; (b) of surpassing excellence, uncommonly good, first-rate. Also quasi-adv.= hugely, immensely.
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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
a1625 R. G. in Stanley Papers i. (Chetham Soc.) 50 Our Chroniclers..stowed their volumes with wapping Tales of my Lord Maiors Horse.
1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 98 See him in bad Weather, in his Fur-Cap and whapping large Watch-Coat.
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. x. 218 A wapping weaver he was, and wrought my first pair o' hose.
1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1839) 1st Ser. xvii. 61 What a wappin large place that would make.
1851 Amer. Mag. Nov. 113 A couple of ‘whopping’ pumpkin stories.
1869 Punch 31 July 34/1 That's a wopping majority against us.
1881 E. A. Freeman in W. R. W. Stephens Life & Lett. E. A. Freeman (1895) II. 224 The Turk comes down with a whopping bit of oppression now and then, but leaves you alone between whiles.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1924; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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