whackern.
/ˈwakə/, U.S. /ˈ(h)wækər/ colloquial.
1.
a. A heavy blow. dialect.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [noun] > striking heavily > a heavy blow
smitea1200
ponder1339
clouta1400
whopc1440
routa1450
maul1481
sousec1500
dunta1522
flake1559
lambskin1573
lamback1592
daud1596
baster1600
mell1658
thumper1682
lounder1723
smash1725
plumper1756
spanker1772
douser1782
thud1787
bash1805
stave1819
batter1823
belter1823
wallop1823
whacker1823
belt1825
smasher1829
dingbat1843
dinger1845
oner1861
squeaker1877
clod1886
wham1923
dong1941
1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 477 Whacker, a blow, a thump.
b. A driver of animals, a drover. U.S.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > droving > drover
drover1384
harrier1591
guide1687
drafter1829
travelling stockman1834
whacker1880
tailer1893
hazer1897
1880 Harper's Mag. Apr. 679 The whacker's long whip cracking..as he lashes his unwieldy beasts [sc. oxen] into position.
1889 H. O'Reilly & J. Y. Nelson Fifty Years on Trail xvi. 172 To search round for bull-whackers to drive them over.
2. Anything abnormally large of its kind; esp. a ‘thumping’ lie; a ‘whopper’.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > an exceptionally large thing of its kind
swinger1599
rapper1653
thumper1660
whisker1668
spanker1751
slapper1781
whopper1785
skelper1790
smasher1794
pelter1811
swapper1818
jumbo1823
sneezer1823
whacker1825
whanger1825
infant1832
bulger1835
three-decker1835
bouncer1842
snorter1859
whalera1860
plonker1862
bruiser1868
snapper1874
plumper1881
boomer1885
heavy1897
sollicker1898
sanakatowzer1903
Moby Dicka1974
stonker1987
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [noun] > quality or fact of being extreme > something exceedingly great in degree
the utter1584
swinger1599
a devil of a ——1604
thumper1660
whisker1668
a (also the, one) hell of a ——c1680
swapperc1700
spanker1751
whopper1785
whacker1825
whanger1825
utmost1856
howler1872
hell1931
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [noun] > a falsehood, lie > blatant, extravagant
a lie with a latchet1580
rapper1611
banger1657
thumper1660
whisker1668
swinger1671
thwacker1674
strapper1677
volunteer1680
hummer1699
swapperc1700
rouser?1770
plumper1776
whopper1791
bouncer1803
yanker1822
rattler1825
whacker1825
falsism1835
crumper1855
bang1879
out-and-outer1880
big lie1939
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Whacker, a lie.
1828 Sporting Mag. (N.S.) XXII. 416 Though the fences are whackers, the brooks they are small.
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. iv. 306 Oh, there's a whacker!..we haven't been within a hundred yards of his barn.
1872 J. R. Green Let. 18 Sept. (1901) 324 The Dome which ought to be a whacker is a poor wee thing.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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