Meaning of whangee | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any of over forty Asian grasses of the genus Phyllostachys, a genus of bamboos, hardy evergreen plants from Japan, China and the Himalayas with woody stems sometimes used to make canes and umbrella handles.
2. A cane made from whangee wood.

Examples

““One marble hall, with staircase complete⟳, one butler and three flunkeys to receive⟳ a retired sojer who dares to ring⟳ the bell. D'you know⟳, old boy, I gave my bowler to the butler, whangee to one flunkey, gloves to another, and there was the fourth poor blighter looking like⟳ an orphan at a Mothers' Meeting. …"”

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