Whale

Noun

 * 1) Any of several species of large sea mammals.
 * 2)  Something, or someone, that is very large.
 * 3) * 1920 September, “A Reformed Free Lance” (pseudonym), “Doctoring a Sick Encyclopedia”, in The Writer, Volume XXXII, Number 9, page 131:
 * It was a whale of a job. It took two months, and the fair blush of youth off my cheeks.
 * 1) * 1947 May 19, John Chamberlain, “Will Clayton and his Problem”, in Life, page 120:
 * But when it comes to his business life and business career, Will Clayton is not as other men; he is such a whale of a lot better that it suggests a qualitative as well as a quantitative difference.
 * 1)  (In a casino) a person who routinely bets at the maximum limit allowable.
 * 2) * 2003, Jeff Wuorio, How to Buy and Sell (Just About) Everything,
 * These are often no-limit games as maximum bets cramp a whale’s style.
 * 1) * 2004, Norm Clarke, Vegas Confidential: Norm! Sin City's Ace Insider 1,000 Naked Truths, Hot Spots and Cool Stuff,
 * A handful of the richest whales routinely play for $200,000 a hand. Australian media mogul Kerry Packer not only regularly bets that much, but has plunked down $200,000 bets for the dealer as a form of a tip.
 * 1) * 2008, Deke Castleman, Whale Hunt in the Desert,
 * The high roller who had the most ferocious reputation for trying to run the business of the casinos where he played, before he died on December 26, 2006, was Kerry Packer. In the casino world, Packer was the Prince of Whales.

Derived terms

 * blue whale
 * fin whale
 * humpback whale
 * killer whale
 * narwhal
 * pilot whale


 * sperm whale
 * whale catfish
 * whale shark
 * whalefish
 * whaler
 * whale watching
 * whaling
 * have a whale of a time

Verb

 * 1)  To hunt for whales.
 * 2)  To flog, to beat.

Adjectives for Whale
wanton; large-finned; awkward; belching; monstrous; trained.

Verbs for Whale
conserve—; derive from—s; dissect—; encounter—; exterminate—; glimpse—; harpoon—; haul in—; land—; market—; pursue—; sight—; spot—; strand—; strip—; value—; —s frequent; —gives battle; —s haunt; —inhabits; —looms; —plunges; — preys upon; —spouts; —submerges; —tows; —yields.

Thesaurus
Loch Ness monster, alevin, angle, bait the hook, baste, bastinado, beat, belabor, belt, benthon, benthos, birch, bob, buffet, cane, cetacean, clam, club, cowhide, cudgel, cut, dap, dib, dibble, dinosaur, dolphin, dress down, drive, drub, elephant, fingerling, fish, flagellate, flail, flax, flog, fly-fish, fry, fustigate, game fish, gig, give a dressing-down, give a whipping, give the stick, go fishing, grig, grilse, guddle, hide, hippo, hippopotamus, horsewhip, hulk, jack, jacklight, jig, jumbo, kipper, knout, lace, larrup, lash, lather, lay on, leather, leviathan, lick, mammoth, man-eater, man-eating shark, marine animal, mastodon, minnow, minny, monster, nekton, net, paddle, panfish, pistol-whip, plankton, pommel, porpoise, pummel, rawhide, salmon, scourge, sea monster, sea pig, sea serpent, sea snake, seine, shark, shrimp, smite, smolt, spank, spin, sponge, still-fish, strap, stripe, swinge, switch, tan, thrash, thump, thumper, torch, trawl, trim, troll, tropical fish, trounce, truncheon, wallop, wear out, welt, whip, whop, whopper

Etymology
, from hwæl:, from  (compare German Wal:, Danish hval:), from  'sheatfish' (compare German Wels:, Latin squalus:, Old Prussian kalis:, Ancient Greek ἄσπαλος:, Avestan ...:).

Noun

 * Afrikaans: walvis
 * Ainu: フンペ (hunpe)
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: կետ (ket)
 * Azeri: balina
 * Belarusian: кіт
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: balena
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Min Nan: hái-ang
 * Croatian:
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 * Danish:
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 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:
 * Filipino:
 * Tagalog: balyena
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: balea
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic:
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ह्वेल मछली
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: hvala
 * Ido: baleno
 * Indonesian: ikan paus
 * Javanese: iwak paus
 * Inuktitut: ᐊᕐᕕᒃ (arvik)
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 鯨; 勇魚
 * Kannada: ತಿಮಿಂಗಿಲ (timiṁgila)
 * Korean: 고래 (gorae)
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin:


 * Latvian: valis
 * Lingala: mondɛ́lɛ́
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: ikan paus
 * Malayalam: തിമിംഗലം
 * Maltese:
 * Nahuatl: huēyimichin
 * Navajo:
 * Ngarrindjeri:
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: balena
 * Old English: ,
 * Old French: ,
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, waleń
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: кит (kit)
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: кит, велриба
 * Roman: kit, velriba
 * Seri: ziix hapx coom, aasj (archaic)
 * Slovak: veľryba
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil: சிலக்குணம் (cilkkuṇm), சிலத்திற்கடுகு (cilttiṟkṭuku)
 * Telugu: తిమింగలం (timiMgalaM)
 * Thai: (waan)
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: кит (kyt)
 * Urdu: وہیل
 * Uyghur: (kit)
 * Vietnamese: cá voi, cá ông, cá ông voi, kình ngư
 * Volapük: valüt,  hivalüt,  jivalüt,  valütül,  hivalütül,  jivalütül
 * Welsh: morfil, morfilod
 * Yiddish: וואל-פיש (val-fish)

Verb

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Anagrams

 * wheal