whopper

Inglês

Substantivo

	Singular	Plural
Masculino	whopper	whoppers
Feminino	–	–
–	–

whopper

1. (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."
2. (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, […]"

Etimologia

(Morfologia) whop +‎ -er.

Pronúncia

• /ˈwɒpə(ɹ)/, /ˈʍɒpə(ɹ)/
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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