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whiffle
English
Alternative forms
- wiffle
Etymology
1662, in sense “flutter as blown by wind”, as whiff +? -le (“(frequentative)”) and (onomatopoeia) sound of wind, particularly a leaf fluttering in unsteady wind; compare whiff. Sense “something small or insignificant” is from 1680.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?(h)w?fl?/
- Rhymes: -?f?l
Noun
whiffle (plural whiffles)
- A short blow or gust.
- (obsolete) Something small or insignificant; a trifle.
- (obsolete) A fife or small flute.
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Verb
whiffle (third-person singular simple present whiffles, present participle whiffling, simple past and past participle whiffled)
- To blow a short gust.
- To waffle, talk aimlessly.
- (Britain) To waste time.
- To travel quickly with an accompanying wind-like sound; whizz, whistle along.
- (ornithology, of a bird) To descend rapidly from a height once the decision to land has been made, involving fast side-slipping first one way and then the other.
- (intransitive) To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about.
- (transitive) To wave or shake quickly; to cause to whiffle.
- To change from one opinion or course to another; to use evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle.
- To disperse with, or as with, a whiff, or puff; to scatter.
Derived terms
- wiffleball
References
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whiffled
English
Verb
whiffled
- simple past tense and past participle of whiffle
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