Meaning & use
nother
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Used informally, chiefly in the phrase "a whole nother," as a reanalyzed form of "another" to emphasize that something is entirely separate or different.
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Fixing the leak was easy, but replacing the rotted floorboards is a whole nother problem.
That's a whole nother story I'll tell you some other time.
A note on using this word
"Nother" arises from rebracketing "another" as "a nother," which then allows "whole" to be inserted in between, as in "a whole nother." It is informal and rarely used outside that fixed phrase.
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