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語源

Of American origin. First use appears c.1856. Popularized by appearing in a sermon parody attributed to William P. Brannan as "Where the lion roareth and the whangdoodle mourneth for her first-born," published in The Harp of a Thousand Strings: Or, Laughter for a Lifetime (1858).

Roald Dahl uses the term in at least three stories of his: James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and The Minpins. In at least two of those stories, namely Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Minpins, the whangdoodle is stated to be a vicious monster.

発音

• IPA: /ˈwæŋ.duː.dl̩/
• (without the wine–whine merger) IPA: /ˈhwæŋ.duː.dl̩/

名詞

whangdoodle (plural whangdoodles)

1. (often humorous) A whimsical monster in folklore and children's fiction; a bugbear.

   Synonyms: bogeyman, bugbear, gremlin

   Hypernym: monster

   • 1901, Charles M. Snyder, Runaway Robinson, page 53:

     "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?"

   • 1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter II, in The Understanding Heart:

     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.

   • 1960 August 22, “Yarns and Whoppers and Practical Jokes”, in Life, 49 (8): 56:

     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.

   • 1991, Roald Dahl, The Minpins, Viking Penguin, →ISBN, page 7:

     “That wood [the Forest of Sin]” his [Little Billy's] mother said, “is full of the most blood-thirsty wild beasts in the world.” / “You mean tigers and lions?” Little Billy asked. / “Much worse than that,” his mother said. / “What's worse than tigers and lions, Mummy?” / “Whangdoodles are worse,” his mother said, “and Hornswogglers and Snozzwanglers and Vermicious Knids. And worst of all is the Terrible Bloodsuckling Toothpluckling Stonechuckling Spittler. There's one of them there, too.”

2. (obsolete) A term of disparagement.
   • 1862, Mark Twain, Mark Twain's letters: 1853-1866, Volume 1 (published 1987), page 171

     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.

   • 1867, John Ballou Newbrough, The fall of Fort Sumter, or, Love and war in 1860-61, page 131:

     […] and I want you to conflumux everything got up by Mrs. Davis or Miss Lane, or any other of these political whangdoodles.

   • 1928 (Mar.), Martin Bunn, "When You Buy a Car", Popular Science 112 (3): 138

     "Now, Ben, you're a lawyer. You don't give a whang-doodle about anything mechanical."

3. (poker) A ruling in which the opening stake limits are doubled for the next play after the appearance of a very good hand.

   Coordinate term: jackpot

   • 1940, Clement Wood, Gloria Goddard, The Complete Book of Games, page 296:

     It is sometimes agreed in advance that after a hand of certain rank, such as Four of a Kind or a Full House, is shown, a Whangdoodle or Jackpot must be played […]

Further reading

• whangdoodle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Whangdoodle on Roald Dahl Wiki.