Citations:whangdoodle

Noun: "a whimsical monster"

 * 1858, William P. Brannan, The Harp of a Thousand Strings: Or, Laughter for a Lifetime
 * Where the lion roareth and the whangdoodle mourneth for her first-born.
 * 1893, Malcolm Douglas, "A Squatter", My Odd Little Folk: Rhymes and Verses About Them, page 5
 * Two little goo-goos, who thought it best, Flew one spring to their last year's nest, And a whangdoodle in it rudely cried, "Just clear out! this nest is occupied!"
 * 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?"
 * 1960 (Aug. 22), "Yarns and Whoppers and Practical Jokes", 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.
 * 1964, Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, chapter 16
 * "Then you'll know all about it," said Mr. Wonka. "And what a terrible country it is!  Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most dangerous beasts in the entire world—hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdoodles.  A whangdoodle would eat ten Oompa-Loompas for breakfast and come galloping back for a second helping"

Noun: "term of disparagement"

 * 1859, X. Y., Cincinnati Lancet and Observer, volume 20, "Correspondence", page 673
 * The address of an Ex-President, which Hoosier attacks so zealously that old English fails to supply him with enough weapons, so he sends a new one, whangdoodle, which probably ranks in logomachy as the boomerang does in physical warfare
 * 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."
 * 1954, Robert Shaplen, "Scarsdale's Battle of the Books", in Cecil Winfield Scott (ed.), Public Education Under Criticism, page 325
 * This was the first meeting Shaw attended as Acting Superintendent and he has since described it as "a whangdoodle."

Noun: "poker ruling"

 * 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