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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