wiffle-woffles
English
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editthe wiffle-woffles pl (plural only)
- (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
edit- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary