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wonderfool en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈwʌn.də(ɹ).f(ʊ)ɫ/
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Meanings

1. (alt-of, pronunciation-spelling) Pronunciation spelling of wonderful.
   alt of wonderful
   • Whenever approached by some unctuous bell captain as to my reason for occupying a chair for such a long time, I would reply in an all-purpose "foreign" accent (part Bela Lugosi, part Charlie Chan) "Merry Chreestmas. America it is a wonderfool country," and then they generally left me alone. 1998, James Howard Kunstler, Home from nowhere: remaking our everyday world for the twenty-first Century, page 179:
   • Marie-Louise emerged from the girls' tent, wrapped in a fleece. She sat down by Jess. "It is wonderfool now zat Jodie is feelingue bettair," she said. 2009, Sue Limb, Girl, Barely 15: Flirting for England, page 195:
   • Fresh, ardent, yet woise, oh so woise, he tell me 'ou to manage my lands, an oder wonderfool tings! 1867, “The History of a Sack of Corn”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round, volume 18, page 536:
   • Then one French-American sous-chef, still in his white kitchen gear, climbed down from the cockpit, where he had been inspecting the cabin, peering inside, murmuring, "wonderfool–wonderfool, ze workmansheep!" 1992, Tristan Jones, Adrift, page 257:
   • “What else does Jannoula say.” I asked, sitting up carefully. “Wonderfool thingks about you, always!" he cried, his doughy hands gesticulating his enthusiasm. 2015, Rachel Hartman, Shadow Scale:
   • Nor waz dhis transformacion more wonderfool dhan dhat ov an evvet into an ewt, hwich no les natturally drew dhe (now uſeles) dental ov dhe artikel into dhe articulacion ov dhe noun, in a newt 1787, James Elphinston, Propriety Ascertained in Her Picture; Or, Inglish Speech and Spelling Rendered Mutual Guides, page 25:
   • 'Come and swim,' he said to me. 'Ze water eez wonderfool.' 2012, Chloe Rayban, Mwah-Mwah, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 126:
   • I have 2 big windes in my room so in the front of my windes is pam tres and cocanots on the tres and so many wonderfool thinks that it is well wort to see 2012, Alix Kates Shulman, A Good Enough Daughter: A Memoir, page 126:
   • Life is wonderfool 2010, “Wonderfool”performed by Dilana:
   • “[…] It's quite wonderfool hoo the deevil he gets through it all.” (Whispering in his ear) “I am surprised too; but I did it all myself.” 1839, Charles Mathews, Memoires, page 260:

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