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# {{lb|en|slang}} {{contraction of|en|[[what]] [[do]] [[you]]}}. See [[d'ya]].
# {{lb|en|slang}} {{contraction of|en|[[what]] [[do]] [[you]]}} See [[d'ya]].
#: {{ux|en|'''Whaddya''' think of my new dress?}}
#: {{ux|en|'''Whaddya''' think of my new dress?}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=1942-09-27|title=A Mark Hellinger 'Short Short' Story|newspaper=The Democrat and Chronicle's Sunday Magazine|location=Rochester, N.Y.|page=10|passage="Mildred's got five kids?" Frank seemed genuinely startled. "Well, '''whaddya''' know! Mildred with five kids!"|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/136252923/}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=1942-09-27|title=A Mark Hellinger 'Short Short' Story|newspaper=The Democrat and Chronicle's Sunday Magazine|location=Rochester, N.Y.|page=10|passage="Mildred's got five kids?" Frank seemed genuinely startled. "Well, '''whaddya''' know! Mildred with five kids!"|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/136252923/}}

Revision as of 17:27, 14 September 2024

English

Pronunciation

Contraction

whaddya

  1. (slang) Contraction of what do you. See d'ya.
    Whaddya think of my new dress?
    • 1942 September 27, “A Mark Hellinger 'Short Short' Story”, in The Democrat and Chronicle's Sunday Magazine‎[1], Rochester, N.Y., page 10:
      "Mildred's got five kids?" Frank seemed genuinely startled. "Well, whaddya know! Mildred with five kids!"
    • 2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?‎[2], New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 237:
      LESTER: Well, suppose you wished one candle would stay lit.
      CHESTER: Whaddya mean?
      LESTER: I mean suppose you wished that one candle would stay lit, and then you blew them all out. What would happen?
      CHESTER: Well, it couldn't happen. Unless you blew them all out.
  2. (slang) Contraction of what are you.
    Whaddya doing?

See also

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