喜樂美語
  1. 1大得驚人的、高達（常接在數字前面，帶「嚇一跳」的口氣）

    Very large — but with a feeling attached. 'Whopping' is not the neutral word 'big'; it is the word you use when the size surprises you, and you want your listener to be surprised too. 'She won a whopping NT$2 million.' 'The bill came to a whopping 8,000 dollars.' Notice that it almost always sits right in front of a number, or in front of a word for an amount: a whopping 40 percent, a whopping three hours, a whopping great sandwich. That is its home. It is informal and friendly — normal in speech, normal in newspapers and headlines, out of place in an academic paper or a formal report. The feeling can go either way: a whopping profit is good news, a whopping fine is bad news. What stays the same is the raised . Journalists love it exactly because it does that job in one word. British speakers also say 'whopping great' together for extra force: 'a whopping great dog'. And there is an adverb use, before another adjective of size: 'a whopping big mistake.' The picture inside the word is a punch — see 'whop', to hit hard. Something whopping is so big it hits you.

From the word’s history

From whop + -ing.

whop（重擊）加 -ing，口語形容大得驚人。

Wiktionary

組成whop（重擊）+ -ing。字面上是「會打人的」——大到像被打了一下。所以它天生就帶著吃驚的語氣，不是中性的「大」。

同家族的字

  • whopthe verb it comes from — to hit hard
  • whoppersame root: a thing that whops — something huge, or a huge lie

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

whoppingadj/ˈ(h)wɒpɪŋ/

  • 1

    Exceptionally great or large.

    • It weighed a whopping 700 pounds when it was full.
    • [H]e went his way rejoicing—an eccentric, sun-browned, good-natured, athletic man, with no strong affection for anything except his rifle, and a predilection for relating "whopping" stories of his travels, and incidents of adventure which no mortal since the days of Baron Munchausen could have experienced under any possible circumstances.

whoppingadv/ˈ(h)wɒpɪŋ/

  • 1

    Exceedingly, extremely, very.

    • Is she doing a tango? A buck and wing? A soulful modern ballet? No, Joan Crawford is having a whopping good time learning judo, the Japanese art of self-defense, for her new movie, The Caretakers. Joan plays a nurse who uses judo holds to subdue unruly patients in a mental hospital.
    • Doss and I run the house, cooking dinner—whopping great pots of stew and rice, sewing and darning clothes, ironing, bathing the kids, blacking the grate, scrubbing the doorstep, running errands.

whoppingnoun/ˈ(h)wɒpɪŋ/

  • 1

    A beating.

    • When I saw Dr. Vaughan, he was excessively kind, and told me that he was exceedingly sorry that I should have got into a mess with any of the monitors, and that, as far as he heard, I was to blame in what I had said, and so he should advise me to take the whopping, as there was no cowardice in taking anything from a legal power.
    • At least this taught me to hate violence which to me translated into thick ears or sound whoppings on the behind.

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