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whoopee, int. and n.
(see below)
[f. whoop int. + -ee2.]
A. int. |hw-, wʊˈpiː| An exclamation of exuberant joy. Cf. hoop-ee int.
1862Harper's Mag. July 282/1 He yelled at the top of his voice, ‘Whoopee! Whiskey only twenty-five cents a gallon!’ 1890Kipling Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) 32 Whoopee! Tear 'im, puppy! 1895Outing XXVI. 428/2 John's ‘whoopee’ had caused a little ebon..to set open the gates. 1932B. C. Plowright For Groupers Only iii. 23 Whoopee!! this is great news! 1974Listener 19 Sept. 355/3 You take your second MB..and once you've passed this—whoopee! You're virtually guaranteed to qualify.
B. n. |hw-, ˈwʊpiː; hw-, ˈwuːpiː| Exuberant or boisterous merry-making; revelry; † a lively or rowdy party; phr. to make whoopee, to indulge in such behaviour; (in quot. 1928, to behave amorously). Cf. whoop-up. colloq.
1928G. Kahn Makin' Whoopee (song), Another bride, another June, Another sunny honeymoon, Another season, another reason for making whoopee! 1929Punch 24 July 86/2 A London hostess, writing to a gossip page, said—‘I am giving a Whoopee. Do come to it.’ 1930Sat. Even. Post 13 Dec. 25/1 Novelists portray him as the gin-drinking patron saint of whoopee. 1930E. Waugh Vile Bodies iv. 51 Noel and Audrey are having a little whoopee on Saturday evening. 1933Dylan Thomas Poems (1971) 84 Even heaven has a smell Of putrefying angels who Make deadly whoopee in the blue. 1938F. D. Sharpe Sharpe of Flying Squad ii. 27 Boys and girls at the end of an evening's ‘whoopee’, would come out of a night club and take the first car they saw for a joy-ride. 1945M. Soames Let. 24 July in Clementine Churchill (1979) xxiv. 385 The evening broke up about midnight, in a general atmosphere of whoopee and goodwill. 1949F. Swinnerton Doctor's Wife comes to Stay 109 ‘I thought you and Mother would make whoopee here—’ ‘Whoopee!’ muttered the Doctor. ‘Disgusting word for a disgusting occupation!’ ‘Oh, just noisy hopelessness,’ explained Rex. ‘Despair set to rhythm.’ 1972D. Francis Smokescreen ii. 26 We had left the bright lights, the adulation, and the whoopee, and gone to live in the country. 1976Times Lit. Suppl. 13 Aug. 1009/5 Frustrated laughers, dancers and makers of whoopee. 1984Q. Crisp Manners from Heaven vii. 74 ‘It often happens that when we think we're making whoopee we're only making a whoops! instead,’ I replied.
2. Comb.: whoopee cushion, a cushion which when sat upon emits a sound like that of the breaking of wind.
1960Spectator 3 June 804 The comically battered face of a whoopee cushion. 1975P. Theroux Great Railway Bazaar viii. 98 These people..were as hard to silence as whoopee cushions. 1977Sunday Times (Colour Suppl.) 6 June 42/3 Andrew..has..a taste for practical jokes..slipping whoopee-cushions where his father or mother was likely to sit.
▸ whoopee pie n. (also whoopie pie) U.S. a sweet snack resembling a sandwich biscuit, made with two (usually chocolate-flavoured) flat, round cakes and a creamy (usually vanilla-flavoured) filling.
1931Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 6 June 5 (advt.) Berwick *whoopee pie. The largest selling 5c cake... Berwick Cake co... Roxbury, Mass. 1985Los Angeles Times (Electronic text) 28 July Goodies ranging from whoopie pies and pecan sticky buns to blueberry muffins. 2005B. Goldner Number we end up With ix. 201, I comforted myself by savoring the sugary sweetness of the chocolate whoopee pie. |