Meaning of quockerwodger | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Synonym of jumping jack (“a toy figure of a person with jointed limbs that can be made to appear to dance or jump by pulling an attached string”).
2. A person whose actions are controlled by someone else; a puppet.
   figuratively, slang

Examples

“Just hand the old quockerwodger over to me! I'll cut⟳ him in half and each part will dance⟳ on the rope just as comically as you please⟳!”

“"I have⟳ a word for writers of his stripe," Mrs. Hale continued. […] "Quockerwodgers, I call⟳ them. Quockerwodgers are puppets. Always squawking. 'Look⟳ at me!' But they never do anything very remarkable or different."”

“[Charles] Lee was a scarecrow, cantankerous, acidulous, arrogant, breathlessly ugly, as jerky as a quockerwodger, but he knew more about the art of war, as it was breathlessly called, than anybody else in America […]”

“Pierre Soulé was a distinguished and effervescent resident of New Orleans. He was a jumping-jack of a man, a man who leapt into action like⟳ a quockerwodger when you jerk the string.”

“I felt a grip like⟳ iron⟳. A strength beyond all reckoning lifted me and flung me like⟳ a child's quockerwodger toy soldier, wooden limbs flailing herk-a-jerk.”

“Did I predicate that Royalty in this as well as in all other unenlightened parts of the superficial universe, was a Quockerwodger?”

“[E]very one to some extent must be a garden Quockerwodger, ready to take⟳ hints, for every member of our Fraternity is never too big to learn⟳ from the humblest brother or sister.”

“Nearly all of these people were sincere in their conviction that Prof. [Felix] Frankfurter’s […] general lack of harmony with the American form⟳ of government made him quite unfit to sit⟳ himself down at the Supreme Court bench. They felt that the fellow was a quockerwodger rather than a politician, an againster rather than a true American, an oppositionist in fundamental things rather than a sincere patriot.”

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