︎wooby
n.— «The resident villain, Huxley (Mandy Patinkin, suitably silly in a scenery-chewing turn), steals Elmo’s “wooby”—his word for the blanket—thus forcing the littlest Muppet on a perilous quest to retrieve it. » —“‘Grouchland’: Everything’s A-Okay” by Rita Kempley Washington Post Oct. 1, 1999. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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