whanking
In Yorkshire dialect, whanking means very large — absolutely massive, an impressive size that warrants a double-take.
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In Yorkshire dialect, whanking means very large — absolutely massive, an impressive size that warrants a double-take. It's an emphatic intensifier with a satisfying bluntness that Yorkshire speech is famous for. A whanking great hill, a whanking spider, a whanking portion of chips — the word does its job with no ambiguity. Despite sounding like something else entirely to ears outside the region, in Yorkshire it's just good old plain-speaking superlative. Nothing cheeky about it — well, not intentionally.
There was a whanking great lorry blocking the lane and we had to wait twenty minutes to get past.
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(Yorkshire) Very large.
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