Meaning of a whole nother | Babel Free

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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