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quockerwodgers

quockerwodgers is the plural of quockerwodger.

Meaning of quockerwodger

Noun

quockerwodger (plural quockerwodgers)

  1. Synonym of jumping jack (“a toy figure of a person with jointed limbs that can be made to appear to dance or jump by pulling an attached string”).
    • Just hand the old quockerwodger over to me! I'll cut him in half and each part will dance on the rope just as comically as you please!1924, Walter S. Bloem [i.e., Walter Julius Bloem], “Tricks”, in Allen W[ilson] Porterfield, transl., The Soul of the Moving Picture […], New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Company […], →OCLC...
    Synonyms:
    jumping jack
  2. (figuratively, slang) A person whose actions are controlled by someone else; a puppet.
    • Did I predicate that Royalty in this as well as in all other unenlightened parts of the superficial universe, was a Quockerwodger?1868 June 20, Ephraim Dodge [probably a pseudonym], “The Tower of London. From Ephraim Dodge in London to Eben Stash, New York.”, in Fun, volume VII, London: […] Judd & Glass, […] (for the...
    Synonyms:
    monkey, tool

Questions about quockerwodgers

What is quockerwodgers the plural of?
Quockerwodgers is the plural of quockerwodger.

Words near quockerwodgers in the dictionary

  1. quobbing
  2. quobby
  3. quobs
  4. quoc ngu
  5. quockerwodger
  6. quockerwodgers
  7. quod
  8. quod erat demonstrandum
  9. quod google
  10. quod non
  11. quod nons

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