whangee, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

whangee n.

also whanghee

[Chinese huang, bamboo sprouts that were too old for eating; thus the whangee was a cane made from the stem of one or other species of Phyllostachys, Chinese and Japanese plants allied to and resembling bamboos; 20C use is historical and joc.]

a cane; also attrib.

[1790		in W. Roughead Bad Companions (1930) 6: He [...] sometimes wears a cocked hat, [...] and generally carries a Wangee cane in his hand ].
1791		‘Anthony Pasquin’ Shrove Tuesday 87: Each had a whanghee ’neath his fin, / And breech’d from ancle to the chin: / And kept his pad, and drove his gig, / And up to ev’ry flashy rig.
[1898		Binstead & Wells Pink ’Un and Pelican 135: With his whangee cane he cut down six or seven inoffensive tumblers that stood upon the bar].
1899		‘Pot’ & ‘Swears’ Scarlet City 381: ‘I’ll take charge of your sticks.’ [...] ‘Oh,’ said Cocky, as he surrendered his whangee.
1900		Marvel XIV:343 June 15: The master got handy with his whangee walloper.
1923		Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves 3: Bring me my whangee, my yellowest gloves, and the old green Homburg.
1960		Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 30: I had watched him reach for a whangee and start limbering up the shoulder muscles.