核心畫面

One way to hold this word: something so far past the normal size that you stop and react to it. The word never says what the thing is — a fish, a bill, a spider — it only says that the size made you look twice.

可以想成:一個大到讓你停下來、愣一下的東西。這個字從來不說那是什麼,是魚、是帳單、還是蜘蛛,都交給情境去講。它只負責更多收起可以想成:一個大到讓你停下來、愣一下的東西。這個字從來不說那是什麼,是魚、是帳單、還是蜘蛛,都交給情境去講。它只負責說一件事——大得不正常。而且說的人通常帶著驚訝或笑意,不是在做正式描述。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary records the word as whop + -er. The suffix -er commonly names the one that does the thing, so the form itself points at a thing singled out rather than described.

維基詞典記錄的字源是 whop 加上 -er。-er 常用來指「做那件事的那個」。所以從字形上看,這個字一開始就在「指出某一個特別的東西」,而不是在描述它。

Wiktionary entry for whopper (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:847645120:17469), etymology: From whop + -er.

One branch

大得離譜的那一個

兩個意思都掛在同一張畫面上:超過正常尺寸,而且超過到一看就知道。

noun · C1

Something that is unusually big for its kind — a fish, a bill, a spider, a mistake. The word names the thing itself, and the only thing it tells you is that the size is surprising.

超大的一個東西