Bogeyman vs Whangdoodle - What's the difference?
bogeyman | whangdoodle | Synonyms |
A menacing, ghost-like monster in children's stories.
(by extension) Any make-believe threat, especially one used to intimidate or distract.
(often, humorous) A whimsical monster in folklore and children's fiction; a bugbear.
* 1901 , Charles M. Snyder, Runaway Robinson , page 53
* 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter II
*: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' (Aug. 22), "Yarns and Whoppers and Practical Jokes", ''Life'' ' 49 (8): 56
(obsolete) (Term of disparagement)
* 1862 , , Mark Twain's letters: 1853-1866 , Volume 1 (published 1987), page 171
* 1867 , John Ballou Newbrough, The fall of Fort Sumter, or, Love and war in 1860-61 , page 131
* 1928' (Mar.), Martin Bunn, "When You Buy a Car", ''Popular Science'' ' 112 (3): 138
(poker) A ruling in which the opening stake limits are doubled for the next play after the appearance of a very good hand.
* 1940 , Clement Wood & Gloria Goddard, The Complete Book of Games , page 296
Whangdoodle is a synonym of bogeyman.
As nouns the difference between bogeyman and whangdoodle
is that bogeyman is a menacing, ghost-like monster in children's stories while whangdoodle is a whimsical monster in folklore and children's fiction; a bugbear.bogeyman
English
(wikipedia bogeyman)Alternative forms
* boogieman * boogeyman * boogyman * bogymanNoun
(bogeymen)- The alleged link between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda turned out to be a bogeyman .
See also
* bugbearAnagrams
*whangdoodle
English
(wikipedia whangdoodle)Alternative forms
* whang-doodleNoun
(en noun)- "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?"
- 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.
- 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.
- and I want you to conflumux everything got up by Mrs. Davis or Miss Lane, or any other of these political whangdoodles .
- "Now, Ben, you're a lawyer. You don't give a whang-doodle about anything mechanical."
- 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
