whopper

/ˈwɒpə/

Etymology

From whop + -er.

whopper means something remarkably large. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 67 out of 100.

whopper is pronounced /ˈwɒpə/.

noun

Something remarkably large.“I’d gone out pike fishing, bless you, never thinking of a trout, and when I saw that whopper on the end of my line, blest if it didn’t quite take me aback. Well, you see, he weighed twenty-six pound.”
An outrageous or blatant lie.“When he got done telling it there was one of them uncomfortable silences that comes, you know, when a person has been telling a whopper and you feel sorry for him and wish you could think of some way to change the subject and let him down easy, […]”