whacking

Adjective

 * 1)  Exceptionally large; whopping (often followed by an adjective such as great or big).
 * 2) * 1762,, A Burlesque Translation of Homer, London: S. Hooper, 1772, Book 7 of Homer’s Iliad, p. 289,
 * all our grannies tell us how
 * He kill’d a whacking great dun cow;
 * 1) * 1819, Olivia Clarke, The Irishwoman. A Comedy in Five Acts, London: H. Colburn, Act V, Scene 2, p. 80,
 * these two whacking Irish boys, that I was telling you of just now, are posted at the hall door to seize the villain, and take him to pay his respects to the next sitting magistrate

Noun

 * 1) A beating.