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Whopping vs Hopping - What's the difference?

whopping | hopping |

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

English

Adjective

(-)
  • exceptionally large or great
    • It weighed a whopping 700 pounds, when it was full.

    Verb

    (head)

    • hopping

    English

    Etymology 1

    Alternative spelling () of

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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

    • Etymology 2

    to hop

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.