a whole nother
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See also: a whole 'nother
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Variant of another, with insertion of whole by tmesis. Compare nother (“different”, adj.), which is largely obsolete. Compare also dialectal tother from Middle English þe toþer (“the other”).
Determiner
- (informal, US) An entirely different; a whole other; intensified version of another.
- 1890, Mary Louisa Molesworth, “The Mysterious Guide”, in The Story of a Spring Morning, and other tales, →OCLC, page 315:
- I don't know what we shall do if we have to be a whole 'nother day in the house and in the dark.
- 1998, Gayl Jones, The Healing, →ISBN, page 18:
- But that's a whole nother story.
- 2005, Margo Lanagan, “Rite of Spring”, in Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, Gavin J Grant, editors, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, →ISBN, page 19:
- A lazy blueness, from a whole nother age, is spread all above me.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:a whole nother.
References
- ^ “nother, adj.2 and pron.2”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2003.
