whopper

Definition

Something remarkably large.

Etymology

From whop + -er.

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "I’ve just run down from Ulster County to look at the town, bein’ that the hayin’s over with. Gosh! but it’s a whopper. I thought Poughkeepsie was some punkins; but this here town is five times as big."
• "There's a storm blowing up, Sylvester—a 'whopper', speaking in the vernacular of the peasantry."