"Woobie"

[Fred Shapiro]

A thread on another listserv has pointed out a word that is probably
unrecorded in dictionaries: "woobie," meaning a favorite toy of a human
being or animal.  The earliest evidence I have found is that it is used in
the 1983 film Mr. Mom.

Fred Shapiro


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