whale
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
Any large cetacean that usually excludes dolphins and porpoises.
Near-synonym: baleen (obsolete sense)
Đồng nghĩa: baleen
- 2.
(broadly)(loosely) Any species of Cetacea.
Đồng nghĩa: cetacean
- 3.
(figuratively)Something, or someone, that is very large.
It was a whale of a job. […] It took two months, and the fair blush of youth off my cheeks.
- 4.
(figuratively)(figuratively, as "whale of a ___") Something, or someone, that is excellent.
My own father only wrote one poem in his life as far as I know, but it was a whale of a lyric, the kind you would give your whole life to write, which he did, but that is another story.
- 5.
(figuratively)(gambling, figuratively) A gambler who routinely wagers large amounts of money.
Đồng nghĩa: high roller
- 6.
(figuratively, informal)(finance, figuratively, informal) An investor who deals with very large amounts of money.
- 7.
(figuratively)(marketing, figuratively) A person who spends large amounts of money on things that are marketed to them.
- 8.
(colloquial, derogatory, figuratively)An overweight person (usually a woman)
Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive)To hunt for whales.
- 2.
(slang, transitive)To thrash, to flog, to beat vigorously or soundly.
Brought him back, put him in the stall—low stable—got out of his reach, and then begun to whale him. Then he kicked up agin; […]
For quotations using this term, see Citations:whale.
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From Middle English whal, whale, from Old English hwæl (whale), from *hwal, from Proto-Germanic *hwalaz (whale) (compare Wal, val, hval, kval; compare also walvis, walfisk, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷálos (sheatfish) (compare Wels, squalus big sea fish, kalis, ἄσπαλος, 𐬐𐬀𐬭𐬀 kind of fish).