Whippingly vs Whoppingly - What's the difference?
whippingly | whoppingly |
With a whipping motion.
* 1918 , Marcus Horton, Bred of the Desert
* 1947 , Francis MacManus, Boccaccio
* 1956 , Richard Llewellyn, Mr. Hamish Gleave
As adverbs the difference between whippingly and whoppingly
is that whippingly is with a whipping motion while whoppingly is in a whopping way; hugely, enormously.whippingly
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- coupled with the jolting of the horse, her tam-o'-shanter flew off, and her hair loosened and fell, streaming out whippingly behind.
- He swung the umbrella whippingly at a leaf on the pavement.