a whole nother

Definitions

An intensified form of another: an entirely different; a whole other.

US, informal, usually

Examples

“"Will the fog be gone by to-morrow morning?" said Patty, disconsolately. "I don't know⟳ what we shall do if we have⟳ to be a whole 'nother day in the house and in the dark."”

“It's a whole nother bunch of folks over beyond the trees 'cross the tracks.”

“They say⟳ she look⟳ like⟳ she have⟳ a turtle shell on her back and the healing woman healed that. But that's a whole nother story.”

“The problem is when you physically try⟳ to impede my progress⟳—then it moves up to a whole 'nother level that you probably can't handle⟳ me on. If it's just words, mean⟳ little things, I'm not [Joseph] Stalin, say⟳ what you want⟳. Get⟳ in my way, it's a whole 'nother thing.”

“The breeze taps my face⟳ with a robe-corner. A lazy blueness, from a whole nother age, is spread⟳ all above me.”

“Executing it all well, with the feel⟳, look⟳ and operation of a real luxury car, is a whole nother ball of wax.”

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