# WTF is a wahwah brush? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [January 7, 2025, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-a-wahwah-brush/1012668 "2025-01-07T05:35:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-a-wahwah-brush/1012668/1 "2025-01-07T05:35:25Z")
In a movie titled _[All I Wanna Do](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_I_Wanna_Do_(1998_film))_ (1998, set in the early 1960s) some of the girls start using the phrase “up your ziggy with a wahwah brush”. Until tonight I assumed that it was a nonesense phrase made up for the movie. Then in an episode of _Bewitched_ (2x37 “The Girl With the Golden Nose”, 1966, 9:17 into the episode) Darrin is trying to lose an account by being obnoxious. During a long stream of babbling he says “I mean, it’s hey you kids with a wahwah brush”. I googled “wawa brush”/“wawa brush” and almost everything is a reference to _All I Wanna Do_ but there is also a clip of Jack Nicholson using the phrase “up your giggy with a wahwah brush” in the movie _The Last Detail_ (1973, apparently set around that time). So, what can you tell me about the phrase. Origin? Widespread usage? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/dSbbC59gnLI/hqdefault.jpg "Gaby Hoffmann- Up your ziggy with a wawa brush") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSbbC59gnLI) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/6ovAefGdwqM/hqdefault.jpg "Rachael Leigh Cook- Up your ziggy with a wawa brush") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ovAefGdwqM) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/hzMZ2ZXZ5uU/maxresdefault.jpg "Jack Nicholson - Up Your Giggy With A WaWa Brush -- The Last Detail (1973)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzMZ2ZXZ5uU) > **[All I Wanna Do (1998 film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_I_Wanna_Do_(1998_film))** > > All I Wanna Do (originally titled The Hairy Bird) is a 1998 American comedy film written and directed by Sarah Kernochan. It stars Kirsten Dunst, Gaby Hoffmann, Monica Keena, Heather Matarazzo and Rachael Leigh Cook in an ensemble cast as students of the fictional Miss Godard's Preparatory School for Girls, and Lynn Redgrave as the school's headmistress. The film takes place in 1963 and focuses on several students' plotting and sabotage of a proposed merger for the school to go coed. > Originally ... ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-a-wahwah-brush/1012668/2 "2025-01-07T06:11:39Z")
Urban dictionary says a brush for pubic hair. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-a-wahwah-brush/1012668/3 "2025-01-17T00:20:13Z")
It’s a term that broke Google’s AI Overview feature. > A Wawa brush is a sticker featuring Gabby Hoffman as Odette Sinclair in the movie The Hairy Bird. The sticker is designed and sold by rachaelthegreat. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-a-wahwah-brush/1012668/4 "2025-01-17T03:44:46Z")
I don’t know if this is the right answer but Wawa Zainal’s company Wawa sells beauty products including brushes.