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wackadoodle
or whackadoodle [wak-uh-dood-l]
What does聽飞补肠办补诲辞辞诲濒别听mean?
Wackadoodle describes someone or something as eccentric, wrongheaded, bizarre, or foolish, generally in an amusing way and with a mildly dismissive tone.
Where does wackadoodle come from?
Hopefully no one as ever called you a聽wackadoodle: It means they aren’t taking you seriously.
Favorite insults: weener, meatball, ass clown, ass hat, yahoo, wackadoodle. Please feel free to add to this list.
— Shultz, Katie (@dingzip)
Wackadoodle ultimately comes from wacky. In the mid-1800s England, a wacky,听辞谤听whacky,聽was a fool, simpleton, or left-handed person (how rude).聽It might be from聽whack,聽“a blow or strike,” implying the person has been hit over the head a few too many times.
By the 1930s in American English,聽wacky (补濒蝉辞听whacky)聽was describing someone as “eccentric.” By聽the 1950s, wackadoo (whackadoo) emerged, with聽-补诲辞辞听likely a playful addition for color and effect. Bill Haley & His Comets sang聽wack-a-doo as fun-sounding vocables in their 1956 “Razzle Dazzle.” You know you want to listen …
In the 1990s, 飞补肠办补诲辞辞听welcomed another, nonsense syllable, becoming聽wackadoodle.聽An early example came in 1995 from Pennsylvania state legislator David Heckler, quoted in The Philadelphia Inquirer as saying it was only “a few wackadoodles” who wanted to repeal a firearms law.聽The late, great columnist and expert on political language, William Safire, suggested in a 2008 column that聽wackadoodle likely comes from 诲辞辞诲濒别,听or “simpleton” as in Yankee Doodle.
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Examples of wackadoodle
Who uses wackadoodle?
While wackadoodle is an insult, it’s much milder than than the likes of “idiot,””weirdo,” or stronger language. That likely helps make it a favorite of tsk-tsk-ing schoolteachers calling out a student’s wackadoodle聽antics or politicians discrediting an opponent’s wackadoodle policies.
Roger Stone鈥檚 newest wackadoodle conspiracy theory is that an FBI agent entrapped him two years ago, so he could be indicted in 2018 to stop Trump from becomin鈥� president in 2016.
It works if you factor in some light time travel.
— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA)
Wackadoodle can be both a modifier and a noun (i.e., “irrational and eccentric” or “an irrational eccentric”).
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Note
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