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In lang=en terms the difference between limit and whangdoodle

is that limit is being a fixed limit game while whangdoodle is a ruling in which the opening stake limits are doubled for the next play after the appearance of a very good hand.

In obsolete terms the difference between limit and whangdoodle

is that limit is to beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region while whangdoodle is Term of disparagement

As an adjective limit

is being a fixed limit game.

As a verb limit

is to restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound.

limit

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
  • There are several existing limits to executive power.
    Two drinks is my limit tonight.
  • * 1839 , (Charles Dickens), Nicholas Nickleby , chapter 21:
  • It is the conductor which communicates to the inhabitants of regions beyond its limit ,
  • * 1922 , , Ulysses , episode 17:
  • Ever he would wander, selfcompelled, to the extreme limit of his cometary orbit, beyond the fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic planets, astronomical waifs and strays, to the extreme boundary of space,
  • * 2012 March 6, Dan McCrum, Nicole Bullock and Guy Chazan, Financial Times , “Utility buyout loses power in shale gas revolution”:
  • At the time, there seemed to be no limit to the size of ever-larger private equity deals, with banks falling over each other to arrange financing on generous terms and to invest money from their own private equity arms.
  • (mathematics) A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).
  • The sequence of reciprocals has zero as its limit.
  • (mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
  • Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.
  • (category theory) Given diagram F'' : ''J'' → ''C'', a cone (''L'', ''φ'') from ''L'' ∈ Ob(''C'') to ''F'' is the ''limit'' of ''F'' if it has the universal property that for any other cone (''N'', ''ψ'') from ''N'' ∈ Ob(''C'') to ''F'' there is a unique morphism ''u'' : ''N'' → ''L'' such that for all ''X'' ∈ Ob(''J ), \phi_X \circ u = \psi_X .
  • (poker) Short for fixed limit.
  • The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
  • the limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country
  • * Alexander Pope
  • As eager of the chase, the maid / Beyond the forest's verdant limits strayed.
  • (obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
  • * Shakespeare
  • The archdeacon hath divided it / Into three limits very equally.
  • (obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
  • * Shakespeare
  • the dateless limit of thy dear exile
  • * Shakespeare
  • The limit of your lives is out.
  • (obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I prithee, give no limits to my tongue.
  • (logic, metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
  • Synonyms
    * (restriction) bound, boundary, limitation, restriction
    Derived terms
    * age limit * central limit theorem * city limits * elastic limit * in the limit * limit down * limit up * limitation * limitless * lower limit * outer limit * the sky is the limit * to the limit * time limit * unlimited * upper limit
    Descendants
    * German: (l)

    See also

    * bound * function

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (poker) Being a fixed limit game.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) ; see noun.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound.
  • *
  • [The Chinese government] has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
  • (mathematics) To have a limit in a particular set.
  • (obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
  • Synonyms
    * (restrict) cap; restrict; withstrain

    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