"whodunwhat" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From who done what, modelled on whodunit.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "whodunwhats",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "whodunwhat (plural whodunwhats)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1993, Contemporary Dramatists, page 592:",
          "text": "In Sleuth Anthony Shaffer created the whodunwhat, where not only the identity of the criminal but the nature of the crime — indeed, the reality and reliability of everything we've seen with our own eyes — is part of the mystery.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Rain Taxi, volumes 2-4, page 27:",
          "text": "Our narrator reads, rereads, and slowly realizes that ulterior \"plots\" are afoot; a whodunit develops into several whodunwhats; a murder may or may not have happened, or is yet to happen.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Time, volume 153, numbers 1-7, page 124:",
          "text": "\"It's not a whodunit — it's a whodunwhat,\" says Cris Barrish, a local reporter. And few foresaw that Capano's brothers Louis, 47, and Gerard, 36, squeezed by prosecutors and threatened with jail time, would turn on Capano in court […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A whodunit in which the nature of the crime is a mystery, as well as the identity of the perpetrator."
      ],
      "id": "en-whodunwhat-en-noun-apcHBkRf",
      "links": [
        [
          "whodunit",
          "whodunit"
        ],
        [
          "nature",
          "nature"
        ],
        [
          "crime",
          "crime"
        ],
        [
          "mystery",
          "mystery"
        ],
        [
          "identity",
          "identity"
        ],
        [
          "perpetrator",
          "perpetrator"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "whodunwhat"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From who done what, modelled on whodunit.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "whodunwhats",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "whodunwhat (plural whodunwhats)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1993, Contemporary Dramatists, page 592:",
          "text": "In Sleuth Anthony Shaffer created the whodunwhat, where not only the identity of the criminal but the nature of the crime — indeed, the reality and reliability of everything we've seen with our own eyes — is part of the mystery.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Rain Taxi, volumes 2-4, page 27:",
          "text": "Our narrator reads, rereads, and slowly realizes that ulterior \"plots\" are afoot; a whodunit develops into several whodunwhats; a murder may or may not have happened, or is yet to happen.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Time, volume 153, numbers 1-7, page 124:",
          "text": "\"It's not a whodunit — it's a whodunwhat,\" says Cris Barrish, a local reporter. And few foresaw that Capano's brothers Louis, 47, and Gerard, 36, squeezed by prosecutors and threatened with jail time, would turn on Capano in court […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A whodunit in which the nature of the crime is a mystery, as well as the identity of the perpetrator."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "whodunit",
          "whodunit"
        ],
        [
          "nature",
          "nature"
        ],
        [
          "crime",
          "crime"
        ],
        [
          "mystery",
          "mystery"
        ],
        [
          "identity",
          "identity"
        ],
        [
          "perpetrator",
          "perpetrator"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "whodunwhat"
}