whooping

Speech parts

1. whooping - Noun

2. whooping - Verb

Meaning

of Whoop

a. & n. from Whoop, v. t.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

wham bash huge vast calling enormous immense crying shouting unnatural screaming hack monstrous prodigious exclaiming
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Antonyms

garrison guard small little screen save
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Phrases with the word

whooping swan

Examples

There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress. Joanna Russ

O wonderful, wonderful, and the most wonderful and yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all whooping. William Shakespeare

Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a thing so miraculous as water. Marilynne Robinson

Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections. Ezekiel Emanuel

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough. Henry David Thoreau

[Footnote] The Mexicans gave the Spaniards malaria, and the Spaniards gave the Mexicans smallpox, whooping cough, diphtheria, and syphilis. The Spaniards believed it was better to give than to receive. Will Cuppy

Close letter words and terms

whoopie whoopie cushion whoopie pie whooping cough whooping crane whooping swan