whapper
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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I know'd this was a whapper of a lie, as soon as I heard it.
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And turning to Tengelyi, he added, "That boy Imri is a whapper, sir; but the other chap's a scurvy rat!"
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That little fellow, Imri, is a whapper, sir.
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Now Mr. Linden," said Joe Deacon, "this tree's a whapper!
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Her eye wandered to the further woodland, softest of all in hazy veils; to the nearer brilliant vegetation; the open fallow; the wood behind her, where the trees closed in upon each other; oftenest of all, at the 'whapper' of a tree in which Mr. Linden still kept his place, and at the happy busy sight and sound of all under that tree.
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