a whole nother

ə ˈhəʊl ˌnʌðə

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(usually, US, informal) : an entirely different; a whole other.

"Will the fog be gone by to-morrow morning?" said Patty, disconsolately. "I don't know what we shall do if we have to be '''a whole 'nother''' day in the house and in the dark."

Origin: Either from a + whole + nother, where nother is a variant of other, from an other, or from whole + another, with whole having been inserted by . Compare also dialectal tother from. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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