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(slang) Contraction of what do you. quotations
"Mildred's got five kids?" Frank seemed genuinely startled. "Well, whaddya know! Mildred with five kids!"
1942 September 27, “A Mark Hellinger 'Short Short' Story”, in The Democrat and Chronicle's Sunday Magazine, Rochester, N.Y., page 10
LESTER: Well, suppose you wished one candle would stay lit.CHESTER: Whaddya mean?LESTER: I mean suppose you wished that one candle would stay lit, and then you blew them all out. What would happen?CHESTER: Well, it couldn't happen. Unless you blew them all out.
2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, page 237
(slang) Contraction of what are you.