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/ˈwæŋ.duː.dl̩/ · noun
(often humorous) A whimsical monster in folklore and children's fiction; a bugbear..
"I'm n-n-not a tor-tor-tortoise," stuttered the curious creature, "I'm a wha-wha-whang-whang-doodle." "A whangdoodle! What's that?"
Bob gave the man fair warning. Told him if he ever prowled around his home again he'd better come a–fogging; the man took a chance and now he's where the woodbine twineth and the whangdoodle mourneth for its mate.
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains lies a happy hobo land where the boxcars are all empty, where there are cigaret trees and rock-and-rye springs and the whangdoodle sings.
“That wood [the Forest of Sin]” his [Little Billy's] mother said, “is full of the most blood-thirsty wild beasts in the world.” / “You mean tigers and lions?” Little Billy asked. / “Much worse than that,” his mother said. / “What's worse than tigers and lions, Mummy?” / “Whangdoodles are worse,” his mother said, “and Hornswogglers and Snozzwanglers and Vermicious Knids. And worst of all is the Terrible Bloodsuckling Toothpluckling Stonechuckling Spittler. There's one of them there, too.”
For a man who can listen for an hour to Mr. White, the whining, nasal, Whangdoodle preacher, and then sit down and write, without shedding melancholy from his pen as water slides from a duck's back, is more than mortal.
"Now, Ben, you're a lawyer. You don't give a whang-doodle about anything mechanical."
[…]and I want you to conflumux everything got up by Mrs. Davis or Miss Lane, or any other of these political whangdoodles.
It is sometimes agreed in advance that after a hand of certain rank, such as Four of a Kind or a Full House, is shown, a Whangdoodle or Jackpot must be played[…]
Use whangdoodle when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Whangdoodle means (often humorous) A whimsical monster in folklore and children's fiction; a bugbear..
Common synonyms include bogeyman, bugbear, gremlin.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
"I'm n-n-not a tor-tor-tortoise," stuttered the curious creature, "I'm a wha-wha-whang-whang-doodle." "A whangdoodle! What's that?"
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