Whopping vs Hopping - What's the difference?
whopping | hopping |
exceptionally large or great
(British) hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent.
* Hopping Down in Kent , Alan Bignell (1977).
* 1915 , ":
*:He took his whole family to a hop-field in Kent, not far from Mrs. Athelny's home, and they spent three weeks hopping .
The addition of hops during the production of beer as a flavouring agent
The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.
(countable, physics) A shift from one energy-state to another by an electron in an atom.
As verbs the difference between whopping and hopping
is that whopping is while hopping is .As an adjective whopping
is exceptionally large or great.As a noun hopping is
(british) hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of kent or hopping can be the act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.whopping
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Adjective
(-)- It weighed a whopping 700 pounds, when it was full.