whammy

Meaning of whammy

noun
  1. an event with a powerful and unpleasant effect; a blow.
    the third whammy was the degradation of the financial system
  2. an evil or unlucky influence.
    I've come to put the whammy on them

1940s: from the noun wham + -y1; associated from the 1950s with the cartoon strip Li'l Abner, in which the hillbilly Evil-Eye Fleegle could ‘shoot a whammy’ (to put a curse on somebody) by pointing a finger with one eye open, and a ‘double whammy’ with both eyes open.

Information about whammy

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of whammy is: whammies.
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Hyphenation of whammy

whammy

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • whammy is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

whammy synonyms

Meaning hex:

hex, jinx, curse

Words that rhyme with whammy

Cammy, gammy, chammy, hammy, shammy, jammy, clammy, lammy, grandmammy, mammy, Pammy, spammy, Grammy, grammy, rammy, Sammy, sammy, Tammy, tammy

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