whacking

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whacking

verb

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of whack

adjective

informal, not comparable 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;

noun whackings

countable A beating.
alternative, uncountable Alternative form of waacking (“dance style”).

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@misc{whacking_2026,
  title = {whacking},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/whacking},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}