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whangdoodle, whang-doodle N. Amer.
Also whangydoodle.
[Fanciful.]
a. An imaginary creature.
b. Something unspecified, a ‘thingummy’. (See also quot. 1904.)
1858H. T. Lewis in Salem (Illinois) Advocate 27 Jan. 1/2 They shall..flee unto the mountains of Hepsidam, where the lion roareth and the wang-doodle [Yankee Notions Feb. 52/1 whang doodle] mourneth for his first⁓born. 1870Punchinello (N.Y.) 9 Apr. 30/1 In his own State the Ku-Klux raged, together with the fierce whang⁓doodle. 1890Boston Jrnl. 24 July 2/5 The rougher element among the boys..formed the ‘Whang Doodle’ Club for the purpose of settling him. 1904R. F. Foster Practical Poker 11 The ‘whangdoodle’, a round of compulsory jack-pots after a big hand has been shown. 1923Nation (N.Y.) 22 Aug. 179 The downtrodden and oppressed force on the Gazette..has to live with this old whang-doodle and listen to his preterbacious scandulations. 1931Amer. Speech VI. 259 Whangdoodle, whangy⁓doodle, what have you, whatsis, whatsit, [etc.]. 1979Globe & Mail (Toronto) 24 Jan. 6/1 In 1976... A new company sprang to the fore in Quebec... PQ Productions claimed to have invented the whangdoodle. |