whopper

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something remarkably large. informal
    — 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.
  2. An outrageous or blatant lie. informal
    — 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, […]

词形变化

whoppers plural

词汇关系

词源

From whop + -er.
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