whale

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whale englannista suomeksi

1. pyytää valaita, metsästää valaita

2. kookas ihminen

3. valas

1. valas

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2. Substantiivi

whale englanniksi

1. (senseid)Any one of numerous large mammals comprising an informal group within infraorder (taxfmt) that usually excludes dolphins and porpoises.

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2. (RQ:KJV)

3. {{quote-web|en|date=2025-09-11|author=Kate Marvel|title=‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/sep/11/hope-fight-ecological-disaster-climate-catastrophe

4. Any species of (taxfmt).

5. {{quote-journal|en|date=2013-08-03|volume=408|issue=8847|magazine=The Economist

6. Something, or someone, that is very large.

7. 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.

8. {{quote-journal|en|date=May 19 1947|author=John Chamberlain|title=Will Clayton and his Problem|journal=(magazine)|Life|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=X0gEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA120&dq=whale|page=120

9. (RQ:Rushdie Fury)

10. Something, or someone, that is excellent.

11. 2002, Kathleen Benson, Philip M. Kayal, Museum of the City of New York, ''A Community of Many Worlds: Arab Americans in New York City'', Syracuse University Press (ISBN), page 54

My own father only wrote one poem in his life as far as I know, but it was a whale of a lyric, the kind you would give your whole life to write, which he did, but that is another story.

12. {{quote-book|en|year=2006|author=June Skinner Sawyers|title=Read the Beatles: Classic and New Writings on the Beatles, Their Legacy, and Why They Still Matter|publisher=Penguin|isbn=9781440649257

13. {{quote-book|en|year=2013|author=Fred Holtby; Chris Lovie|title=ROWDY - THE STORY OF A POLICE DOG|publisher=Lulu.com|isbn=9781291591651|page=105

14. A gambler who routinely wagers large amounts of money.

15. (quote-book)

16. An investor who deals with very large amounts of money.

17. (quote-journal)

18. A person who spends large amounts of money on things that are marketed to them.

19. {{quote-book|en|year=2015|author=Omer Artun; Dominique Levin|title=Predictive Marketing: Easy Ways Every Marketer Can Use Customer Analytics and Big Data|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=9781119037323|page=99

20. {{quote-book|en|year=2020|author=Lawrence Ingrassia|title=Billion Dollar Brand Club: How Dollar Shave Club, Warby Parker, and Other Disruptors Are Remaking What We Buy|publisher=Henry Holt and Company|isbn=9781250313058

21. An overweight person (usually a woman)

22. To hunt for whales.

23. To thrash, to flog, to beat vigorously or soundly.

24. 1852, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, ''Why Mr Sellum disposed of the horse'' (chapter XIV in ''Works'', volume 22):

Brought him back, put him in the stall—low stable—got out of his reach, and then begun to whale him. Then he kicked up agin; (..)

25. {{quote-journal|en|year=1865|month=May|title=Three Days at Camp Douglass|journal=Our Young Folks: An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls|volume=I|issue=V|page=296

26. {{quote-book|en|year=2004|author=Steve Frazee|title=Voices in the Hill|isbn=9780843954845

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