We whine about personal freedoms, planned weddings, little league, birthday parties, graduations and vacations. We feel entitled to these norms and we’re terrified to miss out. Wewantthem like a petulant child wants a binkie. “But my friend got to have her wedding last year! I want MY ...
He was in full dress, as snobby and offensive as a funeral director. He is pale, thin, ugly, silent; he has thin legs, no chest, hay-coloured whiskers, and straw-coloured hair. He is the very picture of his sainted mother over the mantelpiece—Griselda of the noble house of Binkie....
OED lists the interjectional and the second noun sense together and the earliest example is the sound of a collie: Imitation of a gruff abrupt bark of a dog; also transf. (Cf. whoof int.) Pronunciation: /wʊf/ Forms: Also wouf, wowff. 1839 J. Ballantine in Whistle-Binkie 2nd ...