Whopper vs Whooper - What's the difference?
whopper | whooper |
something remarkably large
* Professor Marvel, talking to his horse, in The Wizard of Oz : "There's a storm blowing up, Sylvester -- a 'whopper', speaking in the vernacular of the peasantry."
an outrageous lie
A person or animal that whoops.
The whooping crane, Grus americana .
* 2008 , Thomas Arnhold, ?Web Parton, Wingshooter's Guide to Kansas Upland Birds and Waterfowl (page 88)
The whooper swan, Cygnus cygnus .
As nouns the difference between whopper and whooper
is that whopper is something remarkably large while whooper is a person or animal that whoops.whopper
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(en noun)whooper
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(en noun)- Adult whoopers are white and easy to distinguish from sandhills.
