whoopeeint.n.
/wʊˈpiː/, /hwʊˈpiː/, U.S. /(h)wuˈpi/, /(h)wʊˈpi/ (as a noun, sense B.)Brit. /ˈwʊpiː/, U.S. /ˈ(h)wupi/, /ˈ(h)wʊpi/ colloquial (originally North American).
A. int.
Used to express exuberant joy, enthusiasm, or excitement. Sometimes also used ironically or sarcastically, esp. to indicate that the speaker does not share another's excitement. Cf. whoop-de-do int.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [interjection] > whoop or hoot
whoop?a1450
woo-hoo1697
whoo-ee1811
whoopee1827
whoop-de-do1895
1827 Augusta (Georgia) Chron. 18 Sept. Whoopee for Old Hickory!
1846 J. J. Hooper Some Adventures Simon Suggs iii. 31 Hoop-ee! won't they roll over the floor.
1862 Harper's Mag. July 282/1 He yelled at the top of his voice, ‘Whoopee! Whiskey only twenty-five cents a gallon!’
1932 B. C. Plowright For Groupers Only iii. 23 Whoopee!! this is great news!
1990 S. Leigh Abraxas Marvel Circus x. 88 Henderson shivered and breathed through his mouth. It didn't help much. ‘Whoopie,’ he said.
2002 More! 3 Apr. 120/4 Expect lots of late-night naughtiness—whoopee!
B. n.
1. A shout or cry of ‘whoopee’.
ΚΠ
1881 Ottawa Free Trader 9 Apr. 7/3 The clanging horns and peculiar ‘whoopee's’ of the hunters, ring loud and shrill.
1895 Overland Monthly Feb. 143/1 The occasional outburst of some ruffian, a ‘whooppee’ of defiance.
1950 Wisconsin Archeologist Dec. 95 About ten minutes had elapsed when loud ‘Whoopees’ came through a narrow crevice near the floor of the cave.
1999 M. L. Baxter One Summer Evening x. 98 When she had told Tyler they were going to stay in Jasmine, he'd let out a whoopee.
2. † a. A lively or rowdy party. Cf. whoop-up n. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [noun] > lively or rowdy
racket1745
rooty-toot1852
razoo1864
shindig1871
ram sammy1891
whoopee1909
ding-dong1936
clambake1937
knees-up1939
rave1960
rave-up1967
bashment1996
1909 Progress (N.Y.) Aug. Drinks, jags, wild whoopees were her only resource, for, mind you, she had not been trained in the school of self-restraint.
1929 Punch 24 July 86/2 A London hostess, writing to a gossip page, said—‘I am giving a Whoopee. Do come to it.’
1930 E. Waugh Vile Bodies iv. 51 Noel and Audrey are having a little whoopee on Saturday evening.
b. Noisy or exuberant partying; merrymaking, revelry. Cf. to make whoopee at Phrases.
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society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > [noun] > noisy or riotous
riotingc1390
revelling1395
revelc1400
revelryc1410
revel-rout?1499
jetting1509
deray?a1513
company keeping1529
banqueting1535
roistingc1560
wassailinga1586
riotise1590
roister-doisterdom1592
reels1603
roaring1617
ranting1633
rattle1688
high jinks1699
roistering1805
spree1808
wassailry1814
revelment1822
Tom and Jerryism1822
spreeing1845
to be on the roister1860
riotousness1882
whoopee1928
society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > [noun] > noisy or rowdy
bender1846
hooley1877
corroboree1885
wild party1925
whoopee1928
rort1941
wingding1949
blast1953
smash1963
roister1964
rave-in1967
rager1988
1928 Asbury Park (New Jersey) Press 29 June 7 Hence the ban on the old ‘sidewalks’ whoopee and the new schooling in the behavior of national statesmanship.
1930 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 13 Dec. 25/1 Novelists portray him as the gin-drinking patron saint of whoopee.
1945 M. Soames Let. 24 July in Clementine Churchill (1979) xxiv. 385 The evening broke up about midnight, in a general atmosphere of whoopee and goodwill.
1972 D. Francis Smokescreen ii. 26 We had left the bright lights, the adulation, and the whoopee, and gone to live in the country.
2002 Business Traveller (Nexis) Dec. 27 This is the Caribbean's largest boating event, with four days racing at sea and a fair bit of whoopee on shore.
3. Sexual intercourse. Cf. to make whoopee at Phrases.As a modifier in earliest use.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse
ymonec950
moneOE
meanc1175
manredc1275
swivinga1300
couplec1320
companyc1330
fellowred1340
the service of Venusc1350
miskissinga1387
fellowshipc1390
meddlinga1398
carnal knowinga1400
flesha1400
knowledgea1400
knowledginga1400
japec1400
commoning?c1425
commixtionc1429
itc1440
communicationc1450
couplingc1475
mellingc1480
carnality1483
copulation1483
mixturea1500
Venus act?1507
Venus exercise?1507
Venus play?1507
Venus work?1507
conversation?c1510
flesh-company1522
act?1532
carnal knowledge1532
occupying?1544
congression1546
soil1555
conjunction1567
fucking1568
rem in re1568
commixture1573
coiture1574
shaking of the sheets?1577
cohabitation1579
bedding1589
congress1589
union1598
embrace1599
making-outa1601
rutting1600
noddy1602
poop-noddy1606
conversinga1610
carnal confederacy1610
wapping1610
businessa1612
coition1615
doinga1616
amation1623
commerce1624
hot cocklesa1627
other thing1628
buck1632
act of love1638
commistion1658
subagitation1658
cuntc1664
coit1671
intimacy1676
the last favour1676
quiffing1686
old hat1697
correspondence1698
frigging1708
Moll Peatley1711
coitus1713
sexual intercourse1753
shagging1772
connection1791
intercourse1803
interunion1822
greens1846
tail1846
copula1864
poking1864
fuckeea1866
sex relation1871
wantonizing1884
belly-flopping1893
twatting1893
jelly roll1895
mattress-jig1896
sex1900
screwing1904
jazz1918
zig-zig1918
other1922
booty1926
pigmeat1926
jazzing1927
poontang1927
relations1927
whoopee1928
nookie1930
hump1931
jig-a-jig1932
homework1933
quickie1933
nasty1934
jig-jig1935
crumpet1936
pussy1937
Sir Berkeley1937
pom-pom1945
poon1947
charvering1954
mollocking1959
leg1967
rumpy-pumpy1968
shafting1971
home plate1972
pata-pata1977
bonking1985
legover1985
knobbing1986
rumpo1986
fanny1993
1928 New Yorker 14 July 15/1 (cartoon caption) What is a Whoopee Parlor?
1929 N.Y. Herald Tribune (European ed.: Paris) 17 Apr. 9/2 The flair for ‘whoopee’ and the growing independence of youth have turned the ancient Maya tribal festivals into debauches.
1997 T. Fontana Oz (HBO TV script) 1st Ser. Episode 1 29 Part of my job is to arrange for inmates and their wives to make whoopie. Part of your job is to tell me if said inmate has earned said whoopie.
2017 Western Morning News (Nexis) 16 Nov. (Business section) 11 We've been gathering the ewes to prep them for their brief bit of whoopee with the tups.
Phrases
to make whoopee.
a. To behave in a joyful, exuberant, or noisy manner; to party, celebrate.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > make merry [verb (intransitive)] > noisy or riotous
revelc1390
ragea1400
roara1450
jet?1518
tirl on the berry?1520
roist1563
roist1574
revel1580
domineer1592
ranta1616
roister1663
scour1673
tory-rory1685
scheme1738
to run the rig1750
gilravagea1760
splore?a1799
spree1859
to go on the (or a) bend1863
to flare up1869
to whoop it up1873
to paint the town (red)1882
razzle1908
to make whoopee1920
boogie1929
to beat it up1933
ball1946
rave1961
1920 Elk City News-Democrat 29 Jan. 1/1 In one corner, a cowboy making ‘Whoopee’ out of his whip.
1927 Bakersfield (Calif.) Morning Echo 5 Aug. 4/3 The pair went on a three-day holiday.., winding up at Le Touquet where they were joined by the Prince of Wales and all made whoopee!
1961 J. Carew Last Barbarian 228 Joe handed him the money and left. He knew that it wouldn't last long. Bob was going to blow it out, make whoopee for a few months and end up where he started.
1986 J. D. Hamilton Bob Friday's Other Eye v. 20 The host tuned in the television coverage of New Year's Eve in Times Square. For two hours we heard dreary accounts of sad people trying to make whoopee in the rain.
2015 Daily News (Sri Lanka) (Nexis) 6 Oct. Boy, oh boy, I was in my element making whoopee as well as pretty good ‘moolah’ in the process.
b. To have sexual intercourse.In quot. 1928 probably by innuendo.
ΚΠ
1928 G. Kahn Makin' Whoopee (song) Another bride, another June, Another sunny honeymoon, Another season, another reason for making whoopee!
1949 F. 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!’
1984 Q. 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.
2016 thetimes.co.uk (Nexis) 31 July We were in bed together making whoopee, when I looked up and there, in the centre of her bookcase, I saw the urn with his ashes. Goodbye erection!
Compounds
C1. As a modifier, with the sense ‘characterized by exuberance or wild partying; rowdy; celebratory’, as whoopee party, whoopee world, whoopee cruise, etc.
ΚΠ
1892 Versailles (Indiana) Republican 12 May The Whoopee parties are plentifull.
1929 H. C. Witwer Yes Man's Land xi. 278 The divorce courts were getting too clogged, so they put the brakes on these whoopee romances.
1933 Broadway Brevities 30 Sept. 12/2 The cantinas, nite spots and other whoopee centers are invaded by the celebrating sailors, who invariably have a few fags in tow.
1949 Chicago Daily News 28 July 10/1 The people have not forgotten the District's scandalous record of extravagance and graft during the ‘whoopee period.’
1959 B. Livingstone Belle Out of Order ii. ii. 261 During my stay at the Vanderbilt, I had been drawn into New York's whoopee world.
1973 H. Burton Morro Castle i. 7 The Havana trip..suddenly turned into a ‘whoopee cruise,’ a nonstop drinking party lasting from five to nine days.
1974 P. Gore-Booth With Great Truth & Respect 369 When success was achieved on 22 November, we sent a really whoopee telegram to the delegation.
1993 Time Out 31 Mar. 15 It really is whoopee time at the publishing house if you find something really scandalous.
C2.
whoopee pie n. (also whoopie pie) U.S. a sweet snack made with two (usually chocolate-flavoured) flat, round cakes and a creamy (usually vanilla-flavoured) filling.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > small cake > types of small cake
lozengec1430
rundle1587
macaroon1611
cookie1701
Savoy biscuit1719
queen cake1734
madling cake1747
dough1777
butter biscuit1789
rock cake1815
biscuit1818
madeleine1829
éclair1861
fairy cake1867
puftaloon1871
Eccles cake1872
petit four1875
rock bun1879
baby cake1880
rock1892
marigold1896
sponge finger1906
muffin top1914
palmier1920
lamington1929
whoopee pie1929
mandazi1937
French fancy1969
fondant fancy1974
1929 L'Anse (Mich.) Sentinel 21 June (advt.) Try our whoopee pie! Everybody enjoys it!
1985 Los Angeles Times (Electronic text) 28 July Goodies ranging from whoopie pies and pecan sticky buns to blueberry muffins.
2005 B. Goldner Number we end up With ix. 201 I comforted myself by savoring the sugary sweetness of the chocolate whoopee pie.
whoopee cushion n. a small rubber cushion which can be filled with air so that when sat on it emits a sound reminiscent of a person farting.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > [noun] > a trick, prank, hoax > of a particular kind
grubbing1679
apple-pie bed1781
booby trap1846
turnip-ghost1863
whoopee cushion1931
hot foot1934
water bomb1947
Chinese fire drill1980
1931 Hamilton (Ohio) Evening Jrnl. 21 Dec. 13/1 (advt.) Whoopee Cushions..25c & $1.00.
1975 P. Theroux Great Railway Bazaar viii. 98 These people..were as hard to silence as whoopee cushions.
2020 telegraph.co.uk (Nexis) 29 Sept. Fire a pea-shooter at him, perhaps, or leave a whoopee cushion on his office chair.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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