whacking

A beating.

Adjective

  1. 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, […] 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...
    • […] beside them clung a trumpeter, a whacking big man, an’ between the heavy seas he would lift his trumpet with one hand, and blow a call; and every time he blew the men gave a cheer. - 1895, Arthur Quiller-Couch, “The...

Noun

  1. A beating.
  2. Alternative form of waacking (“dance style”).

Forms

whackings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of whack