Refers to a subject that is vastly or categorically set apart from the previous subject.
Unique in the English language as one of the few 'infixes' (as opposed to prefix or suffix). Other infixes include re-fucking-diculous.
... so we were all sitting there butt naked,.. but that's a-whole-nother story.
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Whole nother may have evolved from another but experts are baffled so its true meaning remains unknown.
There is a whole nother room back there that hasn't been stepped in for about 7 years.
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entirely different
"She wasn't fuckin' tonight, but the head was a whole nother story!"
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You 'aint getting a nam nother cent from me until you pay me back that loan.
Not a nam nother person better step on my grass.
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When you're having more than one drink at the bar, and buying another round.
"Thank you, sir. May I have two-nother? "
Synonym for "another" typically said when a person started saying "one" and didn't feel like starting the sentence over just to correct one word.
Michell is just one 'nother dumb whore.
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adjective phrase: vastly different.
This developed around the 1990's. It was a superlative created to indicate how different one thing is from another. Whereas one could say "another story altogether" or "that's a wholly different story," the term "whole nother" seemed to develop to create a superlative of "another."
He went to school to be an engineer, but he changed to acting, a whole nother career.
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