"whopper" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈwɒp.ə(ɹ)/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈʍɒp.ə(ɹ)/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈwɑ.pɚ/ [General-American], /ˈʍɑ.pɚ/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-whopper.wav Forms: whoppers [plural]
Rhymes: -ɒpə(ɹ) Etymology: From whop + -er. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|whop|er}} whop + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} whopper (plural whoppers)
  1. (informal) Something remarkably large. Tags: informal Categories (topical): Size Translations (something remarkably large): knewel (Afrikaans), нещо огромно (nešto ogromno) (Bulgarian), macek [masculine] (Czech), knoert [masculine] (Dutch), joekel [masculine] (Dutch), kanjer [masculine] (Dutch), baas (Dutch), jätti (Finnish), Mordsding [neuter] (German), Oschi [colloquial, masculine] (German), Kaventsmann [colloquial, masculine] (German), Mordsapparat [colloquial, masculine] (German), ធំសំបើម (tʰom sɑmbaəm) (Khmer), milzenis [masculine] (Latvian), milzene [feminine] (Latvian), kolos [masculine] (Polish), kobyła [feminine] (Polish), colosso [masculine] (Portuguese), grandalhão [masculine] (Portuguese), грома́дина (gromádina) [feminine] (Russian), kolos [masculine] (Slovak), chorro [masculine] (Spanish), montón [masculine] (Spanish), chingo [Mexico, masculine] (Spanish), mogollón [masculine] (Spanish), enormidad [feminine] (Spanish), okkalı (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-whopper-en-noun-h-Ip8hg- Disambiguation of Size: 100 0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Afrikaans translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Khmer translations, Terms with Latvian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Slovak translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Turkish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 42 58 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er: 54 46 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 54 46 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 54 46 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 55 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Afrikaans translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 54 46 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 55 45 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Khmer translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Latvian translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 55 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Slovak translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 55 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of 'something remarkably large': 100 0
  2. (informal) An outrageous or blatant lie. Tags: informal Categories (topical): Lying Translations (outrageous lie): опашата лъжа (opašata lǎža) [feminine] (Bulgarian), nehorázná lež (Czech), grote leugen [masculine] (Dutch), emävale (Finnish), énormité (French), Lüge [feminine] (German), Lügengeschichte [feminine] (German), enorme Lüge [feminine] (German), mentirona [feminine] (Portuguese), minciună gogonată [feminine] (Romanian), гну́сная ложь (gnúsnaja ložʹ) [feminine] (Russian), neslýchaná lož [feminine] (Slovak), trola [feminine] (Spanish), gazapo [masculine] (Spanish), milonga (Spanish), coplas [feminine, plural] (Spanish), cuentazo [Latin-America, masculine] (Spanish), palavra [singular] (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-whopper-en-noun-rLUGDiTd Disambiguation of Lying: 40 60 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Afrikaans translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Khmer translations, Terms with Latvian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Slovak translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Turkish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 42 58 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er: 54 46 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 54 46 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 54 46 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 55 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Afrikaans translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 54 46 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 55 45 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Khmer translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Latvian translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 55 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Slovak translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 55 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of 'outrageous lie': 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: belly whopper

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "Coming out with a whopper now. Rhapsodies about damn all. Believes his own lies. Does really. Wonderful liar. But want a good memory.",
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          "ref": "1997 [1990], David Foster Wallace, “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Isuzu Inc. hit pay dirt in the late '80s with its series of “Joe Isuzu” spots, featuring an oily, Satanic-looking salesman who told whoppers about Isuzu's genuine llama-skin upholstery and ability to run on tapwater.",
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "outrageous lie",
          "word": "énormité"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "outrageous lie",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Lüge"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "outrageous lie",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Lügengeschichte"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "outrageous lie",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "enorme Lüge"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "outrageous lie",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "mentirona"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "outrageous lie",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "minciună gogonată"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "gnúsnaja ložʹ",
          "sense": "outrageous lie",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "гну́сная ложь"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "outrageous lie",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "neslýchaná lož"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "outrageous lie",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "trola"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "outrageous lie",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "gazapo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "outrageous lie",
          "word": "milonga"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "outrageous lie",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "coplas"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "outrageous lie",
          "tags": [
            "Latin-America",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "cuentazo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "outrageous lie",
          "tags": [
            "singular"
          ],
          "word": "palavra"
        }
      ]
    }
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      "ipa": "/ˈwɒp.ə(ɹ)/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈʍɒp.ə(ɹ)/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈwɑ.pɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈʍɑ.pɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
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      "rhymes": "-ɒpə(ɹ)"
    }
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  "word": "whopper"
}
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    "Rhymes:English/ɒpə(ɹ)",
    "Rhymes:English/ɒpə(ɹ)/2 syllables",
    "Terms with Afrikaans translations",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Khmer translations",
    "Terms with Latvian translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Romanian translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Slovak translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Turkish translations",
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    "en:Size"
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    {
      "word": "belly whopper"
    }
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        "English terms with quotations"
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        {
          "ref": "1889, Jerome K. Jerome, chapter 17, in Three Men in a Boat […] :",
          "text": "I’d gone out pike fishing, bless you, never thinking of a trout, and when I saw that whopper on the end of my line, blest if it didn’t quite take me aback. Well, you see, he weighed twenty-six pound.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Poet and the Peasant”, in Strictly Business:",
          "text": "I’ve just run down from Ulster County to look at the town, bein’ that the hayin’s over with. Gosh! but it’s a whopper. I thought Poughkeepsie was some punkins; but this here town is five times as big.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1939, Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf, The Wizard of Oz:",
          "text": "There's a storm blowing up, Sylvester—a 'whopper', speaking in the vernacular of the peasantry.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "(informal) Something remarkably large."
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        {
          "ref": "1894, Mark Twain, chapter XII, in Tom Sawyer Abroad:",
          "text": "When he got done telling it there was one of them uncomfortable silences that comes, you know, when a person has been telling a whopper and you feel sorry for him and wish you could think of some way to change the subject and let him down easy, […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "Coming out with a whopper now. Rhapsodies about damn all. Believes his own lies. Does really. Wonderful liar. But want a good memory.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997 [1990], David Foster Wallace, “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Isuzu Inc. hit pay dirt in the late '80s with its series of “Joe Isuzu” spots, featuring an oily, Satanic-looking salesman who told whoppers about Isuzu's genuine llama-skin upholstery and ability to run on tapwater.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An outrageous or blatant lie."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "outrageous",
          "outrageous"
        ],
        [
          "blatant",
          "blatant"
        ],
        [
          "lie",
          "lie"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) An outrageous or blatant lie."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwɒp.ə(ɹ)/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈʍɒp.ə(ɹ)/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈwɑ.pɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈʍɑ.pɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒpə(ɹ)"
    }
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    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "something remarkably large",
      "word": "knewel"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "nešto ogromno",
      "sense": "something remarkably large",
      "word": "нещо огромно"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "something remarkably large",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "macek"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "something remarkably large",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "knoert"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "something remarkably large",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "joekel"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "something remarkably large",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kanjer"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "something remarkably large",
      "word": "baas"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "something remarkably large",
      "word": "jätti"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "something remarkably large",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Mordsding"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "something remarkably large",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Oschi"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "something remarkably large",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Kaventsmann"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "something remarkably large",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Mordsapparat"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "tʰom sɑmbaəm",
      "sense": "something remarkably large",
      "word": "ធំសំបើម"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "something remarkably large",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "milzenis"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "something remarkably large",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "milzene"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "something remarkably large",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kolos"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "something remarkably large",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kobyła"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "something remarkably large",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "colosso"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "something remarkably large",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "grandalhão"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gromádina",
      "sense": "something remarkably large",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "грома́дина"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "something remarkably large",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kolos"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "something remarkably large",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "chorro"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "something remarkably large",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "montón"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "something remarkably large",
      "tags": [
        "Mexico",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "chingo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "something remarkably large",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mogollón"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "something remarkably large",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "enormidad"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "something remarkably large",
      "word": "okkalı"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "opašata lǎža",
      "sense": "outrageous lie",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "опашата лъжа"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "outrageous lie",
      "word": "nehorázná lež"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "outrageous lie",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "grote leugen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "outrageous lie",
      "word": "emävale"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "outrageous lie",
      "word": "énormité"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "outrageous lie",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Lüge"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "outrageous lie",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Lügengeschichte"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "outrageous lie",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "enorme Lüge"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "outrageous lie",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mentirona"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "outrageous lie",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "minciună gogonată"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gnúsnaja ložʹ",
      "sense": "outrageous lie",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "гну́сная ложь"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "outrageous lie",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "neslýchaná lož"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "outrageous lie",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "trola"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "outrageous lie",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gazapo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "outrageous lie",
      "word": "milonga"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "outrageous lie",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "coplas"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "outrageous lie",
      "tags": [
        "Latin-America",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cuentazo"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "outrageous lie",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ],
      "word": "palavra"
    }
  ],
  "word": "whopper"
}

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