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Cracking ppl. a. World English Historical Dictionary

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Cracking ppl. a. 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. 1893, rev. 2025. Cracking ppl. a. [f. CRACK v. + -ING2.]

1   1.  That cracks or makes a sharp noise as in breaking; that breaks with a sharp report; that bursts asunder.

2 c. 1340.  Gaw. & Gr. Knt., 1165. Wyth such a crakkande kry, as klyffes haden brusten.

3 1669.  Worlidge, Syst. Agric., xiv. (1681), 300. Roaring or distant Thunders signifie Wind; but cracking or acute Thunders Winds and Rain.

4 1821.  Clare, Vill. Minstr., I. 74. Cracking whip and jingling gears.

5 1868.  Geo. Eliot, Sp. Gipsy, 243. I stepped across the cracking earth, and knew ’Twould yawn behind me.

6   † 2.  Bragging, boasting; boastful. Obs.

7 1528.  Roy, Sat. (Arb.), 43. Full of crakynge wordes inopinable.

8 1589.  Puttenham, Eng. Poesie, III. xvi. (Arb.), 184. The craking Scotts … made this bald rime vpon the English-men.

9 1603.  Breton, Packet Mad Lett., 11/2. A Cracking Coward was well cudgeld for his knauery.

10 1687.  Montagu & Prior, Hind & Panth. Transv., 20. Come leave your Cracking tricks.

11   3.  slang. Vigorous, ‘rattling,’ ‘thumping.’

12 1880.  Lady F. Dixie, Across Patagonia, 159. He had gone quite ten miles at a cracking pace!

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