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Whacking   /wˈækɪŋ/  /hwˈækɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Whack  v. t.  (past & past part. whacked; pres. part. whacking)  
1.
To strike; to beat; to give a heavy or resounding blow to; to thrash; to make with whacks. (Colloq.) "Rodsmen were whackingtheir way through willow brakes."
2.
To divide into shares; as, to whack the spoils of a robbery; often with up. (Slang)



Whack  v. i.  To strike anything with a smart blow.
To whack away, to continue striking heavy blows; as, to whack away at a log. (Colloq.)



adjective
Whacking  adj.  Very large; whapping. (Colloq.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Whacking" Quotes from Famous Books



... unpremeditated, freakish, impish, essentially harmless celebration, with a faint flavour of mischief in it because he had Nan in the back of his head all the time. He played up to Mrs. Morrell with exuberance, with honestly no thought except that he was having a whacking good time, and that old Nan was being teased. It was characteristic that for the time being he fell completely under Mrs. Morrell's fascination. They were together fully half the time, appearing ...
— The Gray Dawn • Stewart Edward White

... in the forenoon. The stars are bright and the sky clear. The aurora, too, is shining. Come, get up! The natives are all outside watching Sam while he packs our sledge. The ladies are going about the camp whisking their tails and whacking their babies in great glee, for it is not every day they enjoy such a feed as they had ...
— Fast in the Ice - Adventures in the Polar Regions • R.M. Ballantyne

... sake that Charles has a whacking good alibi! Have you told the police about your talk with ...
— The Monk of Hambleton • Armstrong Livingston

... corn fed, gram fed; stalwart, brawny, fleshy; goodly; in good case, in good condition; in condition; chopping, jolly; chub faced, chubby faced. lubberly, hulky, unwieldy, lumpish, gaunt, spanking, whacking, whopping, walloping, thumping, thundering, hulking; overgrown; puffy &c (swollen) 194. huge, immense, enormous, mighty; vast, vasty; amplitudinous, stupendous; monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental; elephantine, jumbo, mammoth; gigantic, gigantean, giant, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... saw her she seemed more grand and perfect. I held the golden key to trifling matters not understood before. We young fellows, who all admired her, used nevertheless to joke a bit about her wearing collars and stocks, top boots and short skirts; whacking her leg with a riding-whip, and stirring the fire with her toe. But after that evening, I understood all this to be a sort of fence behind which she hid her exquisite womanliness, because it was of a deeper quality than any man looking upon the mere surface of her had ...
— The Rosary • Florence L. Barclay


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