whop

English

Etymology

From Middle English whappen, a variant of wappen (“to strike; fling; shoot; stun”), probably of imitative origin. Compare Old Norse vappa (“to waddle”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /wɒp/, /ʍɒp/
• (General American) enPR: wäp, hwäp, IPA^(key): /wɑp/, /ʍɑp/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɒp
• Homophone: wop (wine–whine merger)

Verb

whop (third-person singular simple present whops, present participle whopping, simple past and past participle whopped)

1. (transitive, informal) To throw or move (something) quickly, usually with an impact.

   He angrily whopped the book onto the table.

   • 1848 October 28, “Collectanea. The First Ice Cream.”, in The Daguerreotype: A Magazine of Foreign Literature and Science; Compiled Chiefly from the Periodical Publications of England, France, and Germany, volume III, number 1, Boston, Mass.: Published by Crosby & Nichols, No. 111 Washington Street, →OCLC, page 43, column 2:

     Then I'd wake up an' screech and roar—then off to sleep again—to dream that Spanker had run away with me, or that father was whopping me, or some other plaguey thing, till mornin'.

   • 1867, “A Maid & a Younge Man. [Page 197 of MS.]”, in John W[esley] Hales, Frederick J[ames] Furnivall, editors, Bishop Percy’s Folio Manuscript. Loose and Humorous Songs, part I, London: N[icholas] Trübner & Co., 60 Paternoster Row, →OCLC, page 51, lines 1–4:

     A man & a younge maid that loued a long time / were tane in a frenzye ithe Midsommer prime; / the maid shee lay drooping, hye; / the man he lay whopping, hey, the man he lay whopping hoe.

2. (transitive, slang) To administer corporal punishment to.

Alternative forms

• whap (dialectal)

Derived terms

• whopper
• whopping (adjective and noun)

Noun

whop (plural whops)

1. A blow or strike.

Derived terms

• belly whop

 

Related terms

• whap

Anagrams

• howp