wiffle-woffles

English

Alternative forms

• wiffle-waffles

Noun

the wiffle-woffles pl (plural only)

1. (colloquial) A state of melancholy or upset; the blues.
   • 2004, Susan Vreeland, The Forest Lover, page 107:

     Billy whined in the bobbing shore boat.
     "What is it? You've got the wiffle-woffles?"

   • 2006, Bowering Sivers, Jammy Dodgers Go Underground, page 347:

     '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. […] '

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary