different between wop vs whop

English

Etymology

From Neapolitan guappo (“dude, stud”), a greeting borrowed from Spanish guapo (“bold, handsome”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

wop (plural wops)

1. (Britain, US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Italian descent.

Synonyms

• (person of Italian descent): dago, Eyetie, goombah, greaseball, guido, guinea, wog

Translations

Verb

wop (third-person singular simple present wops, present participle wopping, simple past and past participle wopped)

1. (Southern US) to physically hit, especially hitting a person with a hand

Anagrams

• POW, pow

Middle English

Alternative forms

• wope, weop

Etymology

From Old English w?p, from Proto-Germanic *w?paz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wo?p/

Noun

wop (plural wopes)

1. the action of or a moment of crying or weeping; lamentation

Descendants

• English: woop, whoop

References

• “w??p(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-12.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *w?paz (“clamour, weeping”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wo?p/

Noun

w?p m (nominative plural w?pas)

1. weeping, lamentation

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: wop, weop
  • English: woop, whoop

Torricelli

Noun

wop

1. water

References

• transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

English

Etymology

From Middle English whappen, a variant of wappen (“to strike; fling; shoot; stun”), probably of imitative origin. Compare Old Norse vappa (“to waddle”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /w?p/, /??p/
• (General American) enPR: wäp, hwäp, IPA^(key): /w?p/, /??p/
• Rhymes: -?p
• Homophone: wop (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Verb

whop (third-person singular simple present whops, present participle whopping, simple past and past participle whopped)

1. (transitive, informal) To throw or move (something) quickly, usually with an impact.
2. (transitive, slang) To administer corporal punishment

Alternative forms

• whap (dialectal)

Derived terms

• whopper
• whopping (adjective and noun)

Noun

whop (plural whops)

1. A blow or strike.

Related terms

• whap

References

Anagrams

• howp