Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An imaginary animal whose nature and features are purposely left undefined. Compare
gyascutus and snark. - noun In poker, a round of jack-pots, usually played after a certain hand is shown, such as four of a kind.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Slang An imaginary creature, of undefined character.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
whimsical monster infolklore and children'sfiction ; abugbear . - noun obsolete Term of
disparagement - noun poker A
ruling in which the openingstake limits aredoubled for the next play after the appearance of a very goodhand .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And unmerciful was he in his scathing denunciation of the "whangdoodle" preacher who, by the cadence of a tuneful voice, strove to produce such demonstrations.
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A chaplain of one of the disorganized regiments was haranguing the mob in what may be termed the whangdoodle style: "Rally, men; rally, and we may yet be saved.
The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer John Beatty
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They have planted him deep in a grave by the fence, where the sand burs are thick and the jimson is dense; he's sleeping at last, and as still as a mouse, held down by a boulder as big as a house, and the whangdoodle mourns in a neighboring tree, with a voice that's as sad as the sorrowing sea.
Rippling Rhymes Walt Mason
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He was written of as the man whom Douglas had beaten two years before, and without other distinction; as lacking in culture, in every way inferior to Seward; as a whangdoodle stump speaker of the second class, and without any known principle.
Children of the Market Place Edgar Lee Masters 1909
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Mr. Okada has been solemnly assured that, in dealing with certain white men, they will insist upon an eye for an optic and a tusk for a tooth; he knows that if he starts anything further he will go straight to that undiscovered country where the woodbine twineth and the whangdoodle mourneth for its mate. "
The Pride of Palomar 1918
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She's got on La Gonizetti's dress, and her voice has the show - girl's clangy-tin-panny-whangdoodle, but that's all _I_ recognize. "
Fran 1913
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