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- euphemisticinformalalso African-American VernacularWhat the hell.
“Hey! What the what?!” yelled Horace. Oona looked over to see her cousin jumping around, yelping and clutching his shorts.
2025, Kate Korsh, chapter 9, in When Fairies Go Too Far (Oona Bramblegoop’s Sideways Magic; 4), New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 85
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