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wiffle-woffles

wiffle-woffles noun: a state of melancholy or upset; the blues.

Noun

the wiffle-woffles pl (plural only)

  1. (colloquial, plural, plural-only) A state of melancholy or upset; the blues.
    • Billy whined in the bobbing shore boat.
      "What is it? You've got the wiffle-woffles?"2004, Susan Vreeland, The Forest Lover, page 107
    • 'She's got the wiffle-woffles,' said her mother. 'She was all right when she came back […] but now she just mopes around, face like a fiddle. […]'2006, Bowering Sivers, Jammy Dodgers Go Underground, page 347

Forms of wiffle-woffles

alternative formwiffle-waffles

Questions about wiffle-woffles

What does wiffle-woffles mean?
Wiffle-woffles means a state of melancholy or upset; the blues.
What part of speech is wiffle-woffles?
Wiffle-woffles is a noun.

Words near wiffle-woffles in the dictionary

  1. wifferdills
  2. wiffle ball
  3. wiffle-ball
  4. wiffle-balls
  5. wiffle-waffles
  6. wiffle-woffles
  7. wiffleball
  8. wiffleballs
  9. wifflebat
  10. wifflebats
  11. wifi

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