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to whomp up

to whomp up

9.5
Make a quick meal often from leftovers
  • phrasal verb
  • Informal
translation icon : preparar
  • I will whomp up a quick dinner tonight.

Examples

  • With little time before the guests arrived, he hurried to whomp up some snacks.

  • The chef can whomp up something delicious in just a few minutes.

  • She managed to whomp up dinner for six using only leftovers in the fridge.

  • She whomped up some pancakes for breakfast.

  • He decided to whomp up a quick dinner after getting home late from work.

  • She was in a hurry, so she just whomped up some scrambled eggs for breakfast.

  • With only a few ingredients left, he managed to whomp up a tasty pasta dish in no time.

Synonyms

to whip up
vsto whomp up
62 3.0

To quickly make food with little effort

is more about hurried improvised cooking rather than effortless preparation
to cook up
vsto whomp up
20 3.2

Prepare a quick meal by mixing ingredients you have

is about hasty improvisation in cooking rather than careful recipe following
to rustle up
vsto whomp up
  • Informal
11 5.1

To quickly make or find something, often food, using what you have

is about hastily cooking rather than hunting or gathering ingredients
to knock up
vsto whomp up
  • UK
1 6.7

To make something quickly and simply from things you have, like a shelter or meal

is focused on quick cooking of food rather than making other items
to clap up
vsto whomp up
  • UK
9.8

To put something together quickly and without care

is about quick but often improvised cooking not necessarily careless work

How Fast

to whomp up
  • Informal
9.5
to whip up
62 3.0
to put together
988 2.8
to prepare
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

whomp up infinitive
whomped up past
whomped up past participle
whomping up present participle
whomps up third person singular

Morphology

whomp + up

The verb 'whomp' is rare/absent in dictionaries and has no obvious cooking/preparation sense, and the particle 'up' does not create a predictable meaning of 'prepare quickly' from those literal senses. This phrase looks like a colloquial or dialectal variant of 'whip up', so a B1 learner who only knows the literal constituents would not reliably infer the intended meaning.

Etymology

Whomp up gives the image of someone quickly hitting things together: whomp means to hit or bash and up means to put them together, like banging leftovers into a pan to make a fast meal. So, it came to mean 'to make or cook something quickly and without much planning'.