"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?"
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Whangdoodle
//ˈwæŋ.duː.dl̩//
Synonyms for "whangdoodle" (5 found)
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Translations
19 translations across 4 languages.
Finnish
2 entries- menninkäinen noun (whimsical monster in folklore and children's fiction)
- menninkäinen noun (term of disparagement)
French
4 entries- Bonhomme sept-heures noun (whimsical monster in folklore and children's fiction)
- bête noire noun (term of disparagement)
- cauchemar noun (term of disparagement)
- croquemitaine noun (whimsical monster in folklore and children's fiction)
Italian
2 entries- babau noun (whimsical monster in folklore and children's fiction)
- incubo noun (term of disparagement)
Spanish
4 entries- Tío Saín noun (whimsical monster in folklore and children's fiction)
- bu noun (whimsical monster in folklore and children's fiction)
- coco noun (whimsical monster in folklore and children's fiction)
- hombre del costal noun (whimsical monster in folklore and children's fiction)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
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.
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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.
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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.
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