whipping

1. 1.

   smart and fashionable

   “snappy conversation”

   “some sharp and whipping lines”

   Synonymssnappy

   Similarspirited

Other forms of whipping

plural

whippings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about whipping

What does whipping mean?

whipping means "beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in whipping?

whipping has 2 syllables: whip-ping. The stress falls on "whip". In IPA it is /ˈwɪpɪŋ/.

What is another word for whipping?

Close synonyms include tanning, flogging, lashing, flagellation, thrashing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is whipping a common word?

whipping is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.