喜樂美語
  1. 1很棒、精彩（英式口語，帶點老派、興高采烈）。

    In this sense cracking means very good, lively, or — a cheerful British stamp of approval. A cracking film, a cracking goal, a cracking good meal, we had a cracking time. It feels warm and a little old-fashioned, the sort of thing a friendly British adult says, or someone putting on that voice. Younger British speakers more often say brilliant, , or (in their own slang) words that change every few years. It is not formal, but it is not rude either. Though actually, the same spelling is just the ordinary -ing form of crack, as in the ice is cracking; that meaning is still the common one everywhere. The 'very good' sense lives beside it, mainly in British English, and you only know which one you have from the rest of the sentence. It grew from an older use of crack that already meant first-rate, as in a crack shot.

From the word’s history

From Middle English crakynge.

源自中古英文 crakynge。

Wiktionary

組成On the surface it is crack + -ing. English inherited the form from Middle English crakynge. The 'very good' meaning is a later, mainly British use of that same shape.

同家族的字

  • crackthe older adjective crack, as in a crack shot, already meant 'very good'

原始詞典資料8 筆記錄

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crackingnoun/ˈkɹækɪŋ/

  • 1

    chemistrygeographygeologyThe thermal decomposition of a substance, especially that of crude petroleum in order to produce petrol / gasoline.

  • 2

    The formation of cracks on a surface.

  • 3

    The production of a crack sound.

    • the crackings of whips

crackingadj/ˈkɹækɪŋ/

  • 1

    That cracks; that produces a sharp sound as of something splitting or breaking.

    • From the spot where the body lay came a fierce fizzing and cracking sound, which ceased, however, before the fumes had cleared away.
  • 2

    Great; excellent.

    • Near-synonym: crackerjack
    • The race started at a cracking pace.
  • 3

    Enjoyable.

    • We had a cracking time.
    • Near the back of the concourse is a piano, [...]. Explains Reeve: "It was donated by a lady who had written to me. My Duty Manager at the time had a qualification and so was able to restore it to full working order. I've heard some cracking tunes on it."

crackingadv/ˈkɹækɪŋ/

  • 1

    Very, usually associated with praise.

    • It was a cracking good show.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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