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Jackpot vs Whangdoodle - What's the difference?

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Whangdoodle is a coordinate term of jackpot.



As nouns the difference between jackpot and whangdoodle

is that jackpot is a money prize pool which accumulates until the conditions are met for it to be won while whangdoodle is a whimsical monster in folklore and children's fiction; a bugbear.

jackpot

English

Etymology 1

Attested as + pot.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A money prize pool which accumulates until the conditions are met for it to be won.
  • * 2000 , Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, Choices, values, and frames ,
    • If no player picks all six numbers correctly, the jackpot' is rolled over and added to the next week's '''jackpot'''; several weeks of rollovers can build up ' jackpots up to $350 million or more.
  • A large cash prize or money.
  • An unexpected windfall or reward.
    • Usage notes
    * By metonymy, jackpot is also the word for several types of poker which feature jackpots (prize pools which accumulate until won). ** 1920 , , **: ... they played red-dog and twenty-one and jackpot from dinner to dawn, and on the occasion of one man's birthday persuaded him to buy sufficient champagne for a hilarious celebration.
    Derived terms
    * hit the jackpot

    Etymology 2

    . Criminal slang usage as "trouble, especially an arrest" attested 1902.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A difficult situation.
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  • A jumble of felled timber.
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    • ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (nb-noun-m1)
  • a (l)

    • References

    * ----

    whangdoodle

    English

    (wikipedia whangdoodle)

    Alternative forms

    * whang-doodle

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (often, humorous) A whimsical monster in folklore and children's fiction; a bugbear.
  • * 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 , , 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
    • 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.
  • (obsolete) (Term of disparagement)
  • * 1862 , , 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."
  • (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
    • 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

    Synonyms

    * (whimsical monster) bogeyman, bugbear, gremlin

    Hypernyms

    * (whimsical monster) monster

    Coordinate terms

    * (poker) jackpot