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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