whacking

== English == === Verb === whacking present participle and gerund of whack === Adjective === whacking (not comparable) (informal) Exceptionally large; whopping (often followed by an adjective such as great or big). 1762, Thomas Bridges, A Burlesque Translation of Homer, London: S. Hooper, 1772, Book 7 of Homer’s Iliad, p. 289,[1] […] all our grannies tell us how He kill’d a whacking great dun cow; 1819, Olivia Clarke, The Irishwoman. A Comedy in Five Acts, London: H. Colburn, Act V, Scene 2, p. 80,[2] […] these two whacking Irish boys, that I was telling you of just now, are posted at the hall door to seize the villain, and take him to pay his respects to the next sitting magistrate […] === Noun === whacking (countable and uncountable, plural whackings) (countable) A beating. (uncountable) Alternative form of waacking (“dance style”). === Anagrams === Wakching