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    To hit someone or something hard — one heavy blow, with the sound of it. 'He whopped the ball right over the fence.' It can also mean to beat someone badly in a game or a fight: 'We got whopped 5-0.' It is a noun too: 'she gave the door a whop with her hand.' This is a country-flavoured, old-fashioned, mostly American word. You hear it in speech, in old stories, in the South of the United States; you will almost never see it in a newspaper or a textbook. In Taiwan you are far more likely to meet it in a novel or a film than in real conversation. Spelling wanders, because it is mostly a spoken word: whop, whup, whomp, wallop all live in the same neighbourhood. Your dictionary points this one at 'whup', and they really are the same idea. The most important thing about whop for a is not the verb at all — it is that this word is the parent of a word you will actually use: whopping, meaning 'surprisingly big'. Something so big it hits you.

    重擊、揍(老式、美國鄉土口語);痛宰(比賽大勝)

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

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組成從中古英語 whappen(打、擊)而來,是 wappen 的變體,大概本身也是模仿打擊聲的擬聲字。字尾加 -ing 就生出今天常用的 whopping(大得驚人的)。

同家族的字

  • whoppingwhop + -ing — literally 'hitting', so big it hits you
  • whopperwhop + -er — a thing that whops: something huge (or a huge lie)

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

whopverb/wɒp/

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    informalTo throw or move (something) quickly, usually with an impact.

    • He angrily whopped the book onto the table.
    • Then I'd wake up an' screech and roar—then off to sleep again—to dream that Spanker had run away with me, or that father was whopping me, or some other plaguey thing, till mornin'.
  • 2

    slangTo administer corporal punishment to.

whopnoun/wɒp/

  • 1

    A blow or strike.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。