whizbangery
whizbangery noun: a device or effect that is startling or amazing.
Noun
whizbangery (uncountable)
- A device or effect that is startling or amazing.
- Perhaps the public was simply less infatuated with the whole notion of space travel, skeptical about its cost, bored with its logistical whizbangery — certainly the television networks gave spaceflight far less euphoric coverage than in NASA's heyday.1985, William A. Henry, Visions of America: how we saw the 1984 election
- 1996: A Murder of Crows by Steve Shepard
While Roseland's public relations department boasted of the hospital's magnificently equipped trauma center and its plethora of the newest and most expensive medical whizbangery, the fact was that Rose- land's staff was not yet up to the quality of the fancy...
Examples of whizbangery in a sentence
- Again I employ the psychic whizbangery and hop into the head of the nearest oncoming car— hello, Mrs.2014, John Hornor Jacobs, The Shibboleth:
- Safeguarding the right to vote isn’t 21st-century policy whizbangery, but it’s vital to the survival of democracy2018, Washington Post:
Forms of whizbangery
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Origin of whizbangery
From whizbang + -ery.
Questions about whizbangery
- What does whizbangery mean?
- Whizbangery means a device or effect that is startling or amazing.
- How do you use whizbangery in a sentence?
- Again I employ the psychic whizbangery and hop into the head of the nearest oncoming car— hello, Mrs.
- What part of speech is whizbangery?
- Whizbangery is a noun.
Words near whizbangery in the dictionary
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