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Word: whooee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...25th annual Georgia Mountain Fair. "Here was this nice little old lady from Flint, Mich., all dressed up like a grandmother from the garden-club set. She'd never chewed any tobacco in all her born days, and she winds up and wins by spitting 9½ ft. Whooee, it was really something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MOOD: Of Roosters and Rumblings | 8/25/1975 | See Source »

...fashionable anti-hero, but because he approaches life with such zest that his enthusiasm is contagious. He cannot contain himself when he sees an old lady taking a shit in the woods, and has to come up behind her and whisper, "God bless you!" His reaction to death is "Whooee am I scared!" He tries to think of some last, solemn, sententious word, and comes up with "Cocklebur...

Author: By Richard Bowker, | Title: Books The Wreckage of Agathon | 12/11/1970 | See Source »

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