whopper
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Substantivo
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| Masculino | whopper | whoppers |
| Feminino | – | – |
| – | – |
whopper
- (informal) algo notavelmente grande
- 1889, Jerome K. Jerome, capítulo 17, em Three Men in a Boat:
- "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."
- 1889, Jerome K. Jerome, capítulo 17, em Three Men in a Boat:
- (informal) mentira ultrajante ou descarada
- 1894, Mark Twain, capítulo XII, em Tom Sawyer Abroad:
- "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, "
- 1894, Mark Twain, capítulo XII, em Tom Sawyer Abroad:
Etimologia
Pronúncia
Ligações externas
- (em inglês) “whopper” in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary, Cambridge University Press.
- (em inglês) “whopper” in Concise Oxford English Dictionary, Revised 11th Edition. Oxford University Press, 2008.
- (em inglês) “whopper” in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Online.
- (em inglês) “whopper” in Online Etymology Dictionary
- (em inglês) “whopper” no Oxford English Dictionary