whoopee-do

noun

Commotion

Meanings

interjection
  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of whoop-de-doo.

    Whoopee-do, man. Congrats! That basically just described an Iguana.

    2012, Jonathan Logan Donovan, Husk: A Tale of Human Hunger, →ISBN, page 161
nounwhoopee-do (plural whoopee-dos)

plural whoopee-dos

  1. Alternative spelling of whoop-de-doo.
    1. Commotion

      “Yeah, but what's the big whoopee-do about that?”

      1991, Sue Grafton -, G is for Gumshoe, →ISBN
    2. Event marked by excitement
      1 more example

      Warming up with a Streak for God, they hit every Sunday service possible, from Bob Condum's evangelical whoopee-do (nailed by a girl with beautiful waist-length strawberry hair who galloped through the noxious tent just as two dozen of Bob's peroxide blond minrobed Saviourettes were garnisheeing the weekly paychecks of a hundred destitute Pueblo natives), to the Episcopal church, where Father Dagwood Whipple was so flustered by the bearded grasshopper thundering through his service rattling a tambourine that he tripped on his robe, tumbled against the lectern, opening a thirteen-stitch forehead gash, and dropped his twelve-pound Bible into the front pew, squarely atop a wealthy parish benefactor's purple noggin.

      2013, John Nichols, The Nirvana Blues: A Novel, →ISBN, page 10
adjectivewhoopee-do (comparative more whoopee-do, superlative most whoopee-do)

comparative more whoopee-do · superlative most whoopee-do

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of whoop-de-doo.
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