wiffle-woffles

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Noun

the wiffle-woffles pl (plural only)

  1. (colloquial) A state of melancholy or upset; the blues.
    • 2004, Susan Vreeland, The Forest Lover, page 107:
      Billy whined in the bobbing shore boat.
      "What is it? You've got the wiffle-woffles?"
    • 2006, Bowering Sivers, Jammy Dodgers Go Underground, page 347:
      'She's got the wiffle-woffles,' said her mother. 'She was all right when she came back [] but now she just mopes around, face like a fiddle. [] '

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary