[
UK
/wˈækɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈhwækɪŋ, ˈwækɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈhwækɪŋ, ˈwækɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
(British informal) enormous
a whacking lie
a whacking phone bill
ADVERB
-
extremely
a whacking good story
NOUN
- the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
How To Use whacking In A Sentence
- And it's on a human scale - you can walk from one side to the other without any more problems than a whacking great hill normally presents.
- Measures to thwart them include burning, herbicides, and "tammy whacking" (physical removal sometimes done by freelance volunteers). Uncategorized Blog Posts
- bushwhacking guerrillas attacking from ambush
- Only prob. is I can't carry anything above my pack without it whacking the brim, hardly. Fishing hats...
- For his second he inherits, from himself, a whacking budget deficit of his own making and a huge current account deficit.
- There have been holes cut in it by Romans seeking gold, copper miners for hundreds of years afterwards and whacking great quarries riven out by the slate industry in recent times.
- Duchess, a whacking big one-hundred-and fifty-ton schooner, a blackbirder. THE INEVITABLE WHITE MAN
- Whacking away the branny outer layer removes fiber, magnesium, and more vitamins. Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy
- Imagine letting patients out into the fresh air after one day, having just cut a whacking great hole into their stomachs.
- It was certainly not holding up the roof but if you really want to disrupt a preparation, then put in a whacking great pillar. Times, Sunday Times