whomper

Example Sentences

• "A magazine columnist found proof of this some time ago when he printed an item stating that Richard Widmark was not at all a hard guy, but a gentle, scholarly chap who wouldn’t hurt a fly, let alone an old lady. […] Fans wrote in by the hundreds calling the columnist a liar, demanding retraction, and vowing that they had actual proof that Richard was ‘by nature a woman-whomper and tougher than Mike Mazurki."
• "“I see a quick light in many a^([sic]) eye here. And well you might look smart, for these two beauties is bear killers, wolf whompers and gut rippers made with my own hands.[…]”"
• "“A whomper, a weirdo, and a crazie,” Wally answered, reciting the nicknames they’d given Eddie, Beth, and Caroline—Eddie, for the way she could hit a ball; Beth, for the kind of books she read; and Caroline, for turning everything that ever happened to her into a movie."
• "“Why don’t I have Ox sharpen his axe?” Sorgan suggested. “It sort of sounds to me like maybe it’s ‘whomp’ time again.” “It probably would solve some problems, Dahlaine,” Zelana agreed, “and Ox is probably one of the best whompers available to us.”"
• "(Orson Oliphant landed in a town full of whap-whompers and stamp-stompers. They whomped and stomped one another every day. It was a hard place to be happy, mostly.)"
• "I can't decide. Did Ryan Howard have the greatest year any 199-strikeout whiff machine ever had? Or did he have the roughest year any 48-homer whomper ever had? Hey, you've got me. You figure it out."