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whacking

A child accidentally receives a whacking from a low tree branch while running.

Definition

  1. Adjective (British informal):

    • Very large; enormous: Used to emphasize the great size or extent of something.
    • Remarkable or extraordinary (often in a negative sense): Can describe something as being extreme or outrageous.

  2. Adverb (British informal):

    • Extremely; very: Used to intensify an adjective, meaning "to a very great degree."

  3. Noun:

    • The act of hitting someone or something repeatedly and forcefully: The action of inflicting blows.
Usage Examples

  • Adjective:

    • We received a whacking phone bill this month. (This emphasizes the bill is surprisingly and unpleasantly large.)
    • That's a whacking great lie! (This describes the lie as being outrageously big or blatant.)

  • Adverb:

    • He told a whacking good story. (This means the story was extremely good or entertaining.)

  • Noun:

    • The old law allowed the whacking of disobedient students. (This refers to the act of corporal punishment involving repeated blows.)
Advanced Usage
  • "A whacking great...": A common informal British phrase used for emphasis before a noun.
    • They've built a whacking great shopping centre on the edge of town.
  • Used informally and often for humorous or emphatic effect. It is not typically used in formal writing.
Variants and Related Words
  • Whack (verb/noun): To hit forcefully, or a sharp blow.
    • He gave the ball a hard whack.
  • Whacker (noun, informal): Can refer to a person who whacks, or is used in British slang as a mild, humorous term for a person (e.g., "a bit of a whacker").
Synonyms
  • Adjective: Enormous, huge, massive, colossal, tremendous.
  • Adverb: Extremely, very, terribly, awfully, immensely.
  • Noun: Beating, thrashing, battering, pounding.
Related Phrasal Verbs/Phrases
  • To whack on (informal): To add a large, often excessive, amount of something (like a cost or charge).
    • The hotel whacked on a huge service charge.
  • Out of whack (idiom, primarily North American): Not working properly; out of order.
    • My sleep schedule is completely out of whack.
Related Idioms
  • Top whack (British informal): The maximum price or rate.
    • We had to pay top whack for tickets at the last minute.
  • Have a whack at (informal): To attempt or try something.
    • I've never played golf before, but I'll have a whack at it.
whacking

A child accidentally receives a whacking from a low tree branch while running.

Adjective
  1. (British informal) enormous
    • a whacking phone bill
    • a whacking lie
Adverb
  1. extremely
    • a whacking good story
Noun
  1. the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows

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