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Whooper. World English Historical Dictionary

Whooper. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Whooper Also 7 whopper. [f. WHOOP v. + -ER1.] A person or animal that whoops. a. gen. (See also HOOPER2 1.)

1 1826.  Southey, Lett. to N. White, 11 Feb. Two of my whoopers still favour us with a little kennel-music.

2 1908.  Academy, 27 June, 926/2. The whoopers and the screamers and the female stump-orators and banner-bearers and processionists are no more the women of England than if they were the three tailors of Tooley Street.

3   b.  spec. The wild or whistling swan, Cygnus musicus (ferus): also whooper swan. (See also HOOPER2 2.)

4 1660.  May, Accompl. Cook (1665), 217. Turkey, Swan, Goose, Bustard, Crane, Whopper, wilde Geese, Brand-Geese,… and many more.

5 1880.  Baring-Gould, Mehalah, i. Occasionally the whooper swan sounds his loud trumpet.

6 1889.  Blackw. Mag., Dec., 828. The whooper is the largest of our wild swans.

7 1902.  H. W. Tompkins, Highways Hertfordsh., v. 104. A pair of whooper swans frequented Water End near Great Gaddesden.

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