单词 | whopper |
释义 | whopper From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishwhopperwhop‧per /ˈwɒpə $ ˈwɑːpər/ noun [countable] informal1 LIE/TELL A LIEa lietells one whopper after another. She 2 BIGsomething unusually big The fish Mike caught was a whopper.Examples from the Corpuswhopper• And as many as 2,500 whopper swans feed on the farmland adjacent to the lough.• This storm's going to be a whopper.• She lay on the bank for a long time waiting patiently until she spotted a whopper.• No one even had a hangar big enough for building such a whopper, let alone the risk capital.• And if our leaders were going to lie about their methods, they were almost by necessity going to tell a whopper.• I came up with a whopper.• She tells one whopper after another.Origin whopper (1700-1800) whop |
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