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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 [[what'd]] and [[d'ya]]. |
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#: {{ux|en|'''Whaddya''' think of my new dress?}} |
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#* {{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/}} |
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Latest revision as of 11:49, 22 September 2024
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[edit]whaddya
- (slang) Contraction of what do you. See what'd and 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.
- (slang) Contraction of what are you.
- Whaddya doing?