whooper

[ hoo-per, hwoo-, woo- ]

/ ˈhu pər, ˈʰwu-, ˈwu- /

a person or thing that whoops.

whooper swan.

Informal. whooping crane.

Origin of whooper

First recorded in 1650–60; whoop + -er¹

They're fetching up a keel boat to the shore, Miss Betty—it's a whooper!

The Prodigal Judge |Vaughan Kester
I cudden't stand it no longer, so I wint down town to-night, down be Shekel an' Whooper's place, an' bought these things.

Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War |Finley Peter Dunne
How'd you like to have been caught out in that whooper, eh, Lub?

Phil Bradley's Mountain Boys |Silas K. Boone
He hastened to assure the whooper that he was awake and afoot.

Galusha the Magnificent |Joseph C. Lincoln

Well, there ain't much use 'whooping up the boys' when only the whooper gets wild.

A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories |Bret Harte

whooper

/ (ˈwuːpə) /

a large white Old World swan, Cygnus cygnus, having a black bill with a yellow base and a noisy whooping cry