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The word whiffenpoof can refer to: * an imaginary or indefinite animal; e.g. "the great-horned whiffenpoof;" * a device used for tracking exercises; * the Whiffenpoof Fish that forms the subject of a piece of comic dialogue in Victor Herbert's 1908 operetta, Little Nemo; * The Whiffenpoofs, the Yale University singing group, founded in 1909 and named after the imaginary beast in the operetta; * a stereotypic Yale alumnus or Ivy Leaguer ==Imaginary or indefinite animal== Particularly among hunters, "whiffenpoof" can be a tongue-in-cheek name for imaginary animal〔( Tryon, Henry Harrington. "The Whiffenpoof." ''Fearsome Critters.'' (Cornwall, NY: Idlewild Press, 1939) )〕 like the jackalope, or a placeholder name for an animal (analogous to "thingamajig"): "Whiffenpoof" has been used as a joking fictitious name for a member of the upper crust; a 1922 Philadelphia newspaper columnist writes of an opera performance attended by "Mrs. T. Whiffenpoof Oscarbilt, Mr. and Mrs. Dudbadubb Dodo and () three dashing daughters who have just finished a term at Mrs. Pettiduck's School for Incorrigibles at Woodfern-by-the-Sea."〔"The Once Over At the Opera;" ''The Philadelphia Inquirer,''; November 20, 1922; p. 17〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「whiffenpoof」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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