Whopping

//ˈ(h)wɒpɪŋ// adj, adv, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Exceptionally great or large. colloquial, not-comparable

    "It weighed a whopping 700 pounds when it was full."

Adjective
  1. 1
    (used informally) very large wordnet
Adverb
  1. 1
    Exceedingly, extremely, very. colloquial, not-comparable

    "Is she doing a tango? A buck and wing? A soulful modern ballet? No, Joan Crawford is having a whopping good time learning judo, the Japanese art of self-defense, for her new movie, The Caretakers. Joan plays a nurse who uses judo holds to subdue unruly patients in a mental hospital."

Adverb
  1. 1
    to an extreme degree wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A beating.

    "When I saw Dr. Vaughan, he was excessively kind, and told me that he was exceedingly sorry that I should have got into a mess with any of the monitors, and that, as far as he heard, I was to blame in what I had said, and so he should advise me to take the whopping, as there was no cowardice in taking anything from a legal power."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of whop. form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

whop (verb) + -ing.

Etymology 2

whop (verb) + -ing.

Etymology 3

whop (verb) + -ing.

Etymology 4

whop (verb) + -ing.

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