different between hacking vs whacking

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hæk??/

Etymology 1

From Middle English *hackynge, hackande, hakand, equivalent to hack +? -ing.

Adjective

hacking (comparative more hacking, superlative most hacking)

1. Short and interrupted, broken, jerky; hacky.

   A hacking cough. A hacking laugh. A hacking breath. A hacking cry.

Usage notes

Most non-creative collocations are the phrases given as examples.

Derived terms

• hacking cough
• hackingly

Translations

Verb

hacking

1. present participle of hack

Etymology 2

From Middle English hackynge, hakkynge, hacckinge, equivalent to hack +? -ing.

Noun

hacking (usually uncountable, plural hackings)

1. (computing) Playful solving of technical work that requires deep understanding, especially of a computer system.
2. (computing) Unauthorized attempts to bypass the security mechanisms of an information system or network. See also cracker.
3. (pathology) A dry coughing; the emission of a succession of short coughs.
4. (sports, chiefly American football, soccer, rugby) A kick in the shins.
5. (massage) The act of striking the muscles with the side of the hand.
6. (Britain, countable) A riding or journey on horseback.
7. (obsolete) The operation of working over the faces of rough or worn grindstones with a hack-hammer.
8. (obsolete, masonry) The separation of a course of stones into two smaller courses, when there are not enough large stones to form a single course.
9. (obsolete, gem-cutting) The cuts and grooves made in the metal laps by holding the cutting edge of a steel blade against them while in motion, for the purpose of providing receptacles or pockets for the powders using in cutting and polishing gems.
10. (obsolete, brick-making) The piling of bricks for drying.

Derived terms

• hacking coat, hacking jacket, hacking-seat
• hacking run

Translations

See also

• pirate

References

• hacking in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “hacking” in Harrap's Shorter, 2006, p. 416
• “hacking” in Concise English Dictionary, Wordsworth, 2007, p. 405
• “hacking” at Wordnik

Anagrams

• ka-ching, kaching

French

Noun

hacking m (plural hackings)

1. hacking

Spanish

Noun

hacking m (uncountable)

1. (computing) hacking

English

Verb

whacking

1. present participle of whack

Adjective

whacking (not comparable)

1. (informal) Exceptionally large; whopping (often followed by an adjective such as great or big).
   • 1762, Thomas Bridges, A Burlesque Translation of Homer, London: S. Hooper, 1772, Book 7 of Homer’s Iliad, p. 289,^[1]

     […] all our grannies tell us how

     He kill’d a whacking great dun cow;

   • 1819, Olivia Clarke, The Irishwoman. A Comedy in Five Acts, London: H. Colburn, Act V, Scene 2, p. 80,^[2]

     […] 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 […]

   • 1895, Arthur Quiller-Couch, “The Roll-Call of the Reef” in Wandering Heath: Stories, Studies, and Sketches, London: Cassell & Co., 1896, p. 13,^[3]

     […] beside them clung a trumpeter, a whacking big man, an’ between the heavy seas he would lift his trumpet with one hand, and blow a call; and every time he blew the men gave a cheer.

   • 1903, F. Marion Crawford, Man Overboard!, New York: Macmillan, pp. 81-82,^[4]

     He was what they call a Hard-shell Baptist in those parts, with a long, shaven upper lip and a whacking appetite, and a sort of superior look, as if he didn't expect to see many of us hereafter […]

   • 1926, Neville Shute, Marazan, London: Cassell & Co., Chapter Five,^[5]

     There was no secret in Genoa about the destination of the little tramp with the peculiar equipment of lifeboats and davits—two whacking great motor boats each as big as a Navy pinnace, each with a couple of hundred horse-power in her.

   • 1932, Delta Sigma Delta-Desmos (volume 38, page 151)

     If any of you want a whacking lot of experience, lots of thrills to the minute and can pay your own freight, sign up for that trip to the land of the Northern Lights.

   • 2004, Peter Bradshaw, “House of Sand and Fog,” The Guardian, 27 February, 2004,^[6]

     He seizes on an opportunity to buy a house at a repo-auction, planning to sell it on for a whacking profit.

Noun

whacking (plural whackings)

1. A beating.