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thumping
vs
whupping
thumping
noun
A beating.
A dull, heavy sound.
A heavy defeat.
adj
Exceptional in some degree.
whupping
noun
A beating.
A brutal defeat.
How often have the words
thumping
and
whupping
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)