whacking
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a. 巨大的, 强有力的 adv. 非常
词形变化
whackings
复数
whackings
释义与例句
n.
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A beating.
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2.
Alternative form of waacking (“dance style”).
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v.
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present participle and gerund of whack
adj.
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Exceptionally large; whopping (often followed by an adjective such as great or big).
非正式1762, Thomas Bridges, A Burlesque Translation of Homer, London: S. Hooper, 1772, Book 7 of Homer’s Iliad, p. 289, […] 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, […] 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 […]