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Definition: WHOOPING |
WHOOPING1. A. & n. from Whoop, v. t. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Whoop |
Date "WHOOPING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disease | Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: WHOOPING |
| English words defined with "WHOOPING": Chin cough, Cygnus cygnus ♦ Hooper, Hooping cough ♦ Kinkhaust ♦ whooper, whooper swan. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "WHOOPING": Bordetella pertussis ♦ Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis Vaccine, DPT immunisation, DPT immunization ♦ Pertussis Toxins. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Tommy and the Whooping Cough (1912) The Whooping Crane (1986) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Highly communicable, vaccine-preventable disease that lasts for many weeks and is typically manifested in children with paroxysmal spasms of severe coughing, whooping, and post-tussive vomiting, also known as Bordet-Gengou bacillus. Credit: CDC. |  | Whooping Cranes. Credit: Bob Hines. |
 | When coupled with malnutrition ... whooping cough is still one of the killer diseases. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by L. Matlovski.. |  | While You Make Up Your Mind About Whooping Cough Vaccination, Thousands Of Children Are Holding Their Breath : There's An Epidemic. Get Your Child Vaccinated Now. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Whooping Cough Is Back!. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | A.H. Woods presents Valeska Suratt in the swift, smart & saucy play, The girl with the whooping cough the latest Paris sensation : by Stanislaus Stange. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Experiments with a component of pertussis toxin (a toxin from the bacteria that causes whooping cough) suggest that this might be possible. (references) | |
Diphtheria, whooping cough, and tetanus immunizations (DPT or DT shots) are not "live" and are considered by some to be safe for those being treated for cancer. (references) | ||
Highly communicable, vaccine-preventable disease that lasts for many weeks and is typically manifested in children with paroxysmal spasms of severe coughing, whooping, and posttussive vomiting. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | To take advantage of modern vaccination achievements, I am proposing a mass immunization program, aimed at the virtual elimination of such ancient enemies of our children as polio, diphtheria, whooping cough, and tetanus. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "WHOOPING" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 57.94% of the time. "WHOOPING" is used about 107 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 57.94% | 62 | 42,755 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 40.19% | 43 | 52,181 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.87% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 107 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "WHOOPING": whooping cough ♦ whooping crane ♦ whooping swan. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "WHOOPING": whooping-cough. | |
Ending with "WHOOPING": war-whooping. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "WHOOPING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kollë e mirë (whooping cough). (various references) | |
Arabic | صياح (brash, crying, hoot, ranting, screaming, screech, shouting, shrieking, vociferous, yelling). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | магарешка кашлица (hooping cough, whooping cough), поен лебед (whooper, whooping swan). (various references) | |
Chinese | 高声呼喊 (Whooped). (various references) | |
Czech | èerný kašel (hooping cough, whooping cough). (various references) | |
Danish | trompetertrane (whooping crane), kighostevaccine (pertussis vaccine, whooping-cough vaccine), kighoste-pneumoni (whooping-cough complicated by pneumonia), kighoste (paroxysmal cough, pertussis, whooping cough, whooping-cough). (various references) | |
Dutch | tussis quinta (pertussis, whooping-cough), tussis convulsiva (pertussis, whooping-cough), trompetkraanvogel (whooping crane), pertussis (pertussis), kinkhoest (pertussis, whooping cough, whooping-cough). (various references) | |
Finnish | hinkuyskä (whooping-cough). (various references) | |
French | cris. (various references) | |
German | Keuchhusten (whooping cough, whoopingcough). (various references) | |
Greek | κοκκύτησ (whooping cough), κοκκύτης (pertussis, whooping-cough), κοκκυτική πνευμονία (whooping-cough complicated by pneumonia), κοκίτησ (croup, whooping cough), κοκίτης (pertussis, whooping cough), λευκός αμερικανικός γερανός (whooping crane), αντικοκκυτικό εμβόλιο (pertussis vaccine, whooping-cough vaccine). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szamárköhögés (hooping cough, whooping cough, whooping-cough), szamárhurut (whooping-cough). (various references) | |
Italian | pertosse (pertussis, whooping cough). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 百日' (whooping cough). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひゃくにちぜき (whooping cough). (various references) | |
Manx | gerrym (call of bird, crow of cock, crowing, mission, outcry, profession, shouting, vocation, whoop). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oopingwhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | coqueluche (chin-cough, faddiness). (various references) | |
Romanian | tuse convulsivã (pertussis, whoop, whooping cough). (various references) | |
Russian | выкрикивать выкрик (whoop). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | veliki kašalj (whooping cough). (various references) | |
Spanish | tos ferina (croup, whooping cough). (various references) | |
Swedish | kikhosta (pertussis, whooping cough, whooping-cough, whoppingcough). (various references) | |
Turkish | boğmaca öksürüğü (hooping cough, pertussis, whooping cough). (various references) | |
Turkmen | gцtsbogma (whooping cough). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | коклюш (whooping cough). (various references) | |
Welsh | pas (whooping cough). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Grus americana. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"WHOOPING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: whomping, whoofing, whoopi, whoopping, wooping. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "WHOOPING" (pronounced wuw"ping or hwuw"ping) |
| 5 | w uw" p i ng | swooping. |
| 4 | -uw" p i ng | drooping, grouping, recouping, regrouping, scooping, snooping, stooping, trooping. |
| 3 | -p i ng | antidumping, aping, backslapping, beeping, bleeping, bookkeeping, bumping, burping, camping, capping, carping, Chipping, chirping, chomping, chopping, clamping, clapping, clipping, clumping, coping, copping, cramping, creeping, crimping, cropping, damping, developing, dipping, draping, dripping, dropping, dumping, eavesdropping, enveloping, equipping, escaping, flapping, flipping, flopping, galloping, gaping, gasping, gossiping, grasping, griping, gripping, groping, gulping, handicapping, harping, heaping, helping, hoping, hopping, housekeeping, hyping, jumping, keeping, kidnaping, kidnapping, lamping, landscaping, lapping, leaping, limping, lopping, lumping, mapping, moping, mopping, napping, nipping, outstripping, overlapping, overstepping, peacekeeping, peeping, pimping, piping, popping, prepping, propping, pulping, pumping, ramping, raping, rapping, reaping, recapping, reshaping, revamping, ripping, romping, roping, safekeeping, sapping, scalping, scoping, scraping, scrapping, scrimping, seeping, shaping, shipping, shopping, sidestepping, sipping, skimping, skipping, slapping, sleeping, slipping, sloping, slumping, snapping, sniping, sopping, stamping, stepping, stereotyping, stomping, stopping, strapping, stripping, stumping, swamping, swapping, sweeping, swiping, tamping, taping, tapping, thumping, tipping, topping, tramping, trapping, tripping, typing, unwrapping, upping, usurping, videotaping, walloping, Wapping, warping, weeping, whipping, whopping, wiping, Wiretapping, worshipping, wrapping, zapping, zipping. |
| 5 | -w uw" p i ng | swooping. |
| 4 | -uw" p i ng | drooping, grouping, recouping, regrouping, scooping, snooping, stooping, trooping. |
| 3 | -p i ng | antidumping, aping, backslapping, beeping, bleeping, bookkeeping, bumping, burping, camping, capping, carping, Chipping, chirping, chomping, chopping, clamping, clapping, clipping, clumping, coping, copping, cramping, creeping, crimping, cropping, damping, developing, dipping, draping, dripping, dropping, dumping, eavesdropping, enveloping, equipping, escaping, flapping, flipping, flopping, galloping, gaping, gasping, gossiping, grasping, griping, gripping, groping, gulping, handicapping, harping, heaping, helping, hoping, hopping, housekeeping, hyping, jumping, keeping, kidnaping, kidnapping, lamping, landscaping, lapping, leaping, limping, lopping, lumping, mapping, moping, mopping, napping, nipping, outstripping, overlapping, overstepping, peacekeeping, peeping, pimping, piping, popping, prepping, propping, pulping, pumping, ramping, raping, rapping, reaping, recapping, reshaping, revamping, ripping, romping, roping, safekeeping, sapping, scalping, scoping, scraping, scrapping, scrimping, seeping, shaping, shipping, shopping, sidestepping, sipping, skimping, skipping, slapping, sleeping, slipping, sloping, slumping, snapping, sniping, sopping, stamping, stepping, stereotyping, stomping, stopping, strapping, stripping, stumping, swamping, swapping, sweeping, swiping, tamping, taping, tapping, thumping, tipping, topping, tramping, trapping, tripping, typing, unwrapping, upping, usurping, videotaping, walloping, Wapping, warping, weeping, whipping, whopping, wiping, Wiretapping, worshipping, wrapping, zapping, zipping. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-h-i-n-o-o-p-w" | |
-1 letter: hooping, poohing. | |
-2 letters: gonoph, hoping, oohing, wooing. | |
-3 letters: gipon, nohow, ohing, oping, owing, phono, pingo, whoop. | |
-4 letters: goon, goop, gown, hong, hoop, nigh, phon, ping, pion, pong, pooh, poon, whig, whin, whip, whop, wing, wino. | |
-5 letters: ghi, gin, gip, goo, hin, hip, hog, hon, hop, how, ion, nip, nog, noh, noo, now, oho, ooh, own. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-h-i-n-o-o-p-w" | |
+4 letters: showstopping. | |
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