a whole nother

[Charles Doyle]

The lexification of the phrase "a whole nother" (557,000 Google hits) is suggested by the comparative scarcity of other "infixed" words:  "a totally nother" (192 hits), "a fucking nother" (174), "a completely nother" (85), "a way nother" (21), "a wholly nother" (4), "a quite nother" (0).

--Charlie

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