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In some senses, whacking is marked as informal. Watch for register when choosing this word.
whacking
noun 2adj 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
big, great, irish
VERB + WHACKING
heard, kill
WHACKING + NOUN
boys, cow, man, thief
PREP.
on
Definitions
adj
1
Exceptionally large; whopping (often followed by an adjective such as great or big).
1762, Thomas Bridges, A Burlesque Translation of Homer, London: S. Hooper, 1772, Book 7 of Homer’s Iliad, p. 289, […] all our grannies tell us how He kill’d a whacking great dun cow;
1819, Olivia Clarke, The Irishwoman. A Comedy in Five Acts, London: H. Colburn, Act V, Scene 2, p. 80, […] these two whacking Irish boys, that I was telling you of just now, are posted at the hall door to seize the villain, and take him to pay his respects to the next sitting magistrate […]
noun
1
A beating.
2
Alternative form of waacking (“dance style”).
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1762, Thomas Bridges, A Burlesque Translation of Homer, London: S. Hooper, 1772, Book 7 of Homer’s Iliad, p. 289, […] all our grannies tell us how He kill’d a whacking great dun cow;
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1819, Olivia Clarke, The Irishwoman. A Comedy in Five Acts, London: H. Colburn, Act V, Scene 2, p. 80, […] these two whacking Irish boys, that I was telling you of just now, are posted at the hall doo
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[…] beside them clung a trumpeter, a whacking big man, an’ between the heavy seas he would lift his trumpet with one hand, and blow a call; and every time he blew the men gave a cheer.
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A little old woman foiled the robbery by whacking the thief on the head with her cane.
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Gustavo heard a whacking sound.
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