Meaning of Whangdoodle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A whimsical monster in folklore and children's fiction; a bugbear.
   humorous, often
2. Term of disparagement
   obsolete
3. A ruling in which the opening stake limits are doubled for the next play after the appearance of a very good hand.

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Examples

“"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.”

“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.”

“[…]and I want⟳ you to conflumux everything got up by Mrs. Davis or Miss⟳ Lane, or any other of these political whangdoodles.”

“"Now, Ben, you're a lawyer. You don't give⟳ a whang-doodle about anything mechanical."”

“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[…]”

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