Dictionary

whap en · INTJ · etymology 1

Etymology

Onomatopoeic; variant of whop.

Meanings

1. The sound of sudden blow or hit.
   • Whap, Biff, Ooooof, Sock, Pow, Zok! Batman is back. Gotham City is again leaving its law and order in the hands of a man who wears plastic underpants over his tights. 1989 June 5, The Canberra Times, Australia Capital Territory, page 10, column 2:

Deriveds

awhape

whap en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

Onomatopoeic; variant of whop.

Meanings

1. A blow; a hit; a whop.
2. (UK, colloquial) A breast.

Forms

whap en · VERB · etymology 1

Etymology

Onomatopoeic; variant of whop.

Meanings

1. (US, transitive) To strike hard and suddenly.
2. (US, intransitive) To throw oneself quickly, or by an abrupt motion; to turn suddenly.
   • TO WHAP OVER. To turn over. (New England.) 1848, John Russell Bartlett, Dictionary of Americanisms, New York: Bartlett & Welford, page 379:
   • Screen doors whapped throughout the night […] 1989, John Irving, chapter 9, in A Prayer for Owen Meany, New York: William Morrow, page 524:
   • The fish whapped over.
   • And at last, as they wrestled and whapped together, they fell headlong in the stream. 1902, Henry Van Dyke, “The Mill”, in The Blue Flower, New York: Scribner, page 65:
   • 1844, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Judge Haliburton’s Yankee Stories, Part Two, Chapter 22, Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, pp. 179-180, He wears his hat a little a one side, rakish-like, whaps his cane down ag’in the pavement hard, as if he intended to keep things in their place, swaggers a few, as if he though he had a right to look big […]
   • She whapped down on the floor.

Forms

whap en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

Variant of whaup.

Meanings

1. (Scotland, obsolete) The curlew, Numenius arquata; a whaup.

Forms