whodunit
[ hoo-duhn-it ]
/ huˈdʌn ɪt /
noun Informal.
a narrative dealing with a murder or a series of murders and the detection of the criminal; detective story.
Also
especially British,
who·dun·nit.
Origin of whodunit
1925–30; jocular formation from question
Who done it?, for standard English
Who did it?
Words nearby whodunit
who's,
who's afraid of virginia woolf?,
who's who,
who-does-what,
whoa,
whodunit,
whodunnit,
whoe'er,
whoever,
whole,
whole ball of wax, the
British Dictionary definitions for whodunnit
whodunnit
whodunit
/ (huːˈdʌnɪt) /
noun
informal
a novel, play, etc, concerned with a crime, usually murder