different between whiffler vs whiffles

English

Etymology

From whiffle +? -er.

Noun

whiffler (plural whifflers)

1. (obsolete) One who whiffles, or frequently changes their course or opinion.
2. (obsolete) One who argues evasively; a trifler.
3. (obsolete) One who plays on a whiffle; a fifer or piper.
4. (obsolete) An officer who went before a procession to clear the way, by blowing a horn or otherwise; hence, any person who marched at the head of a procession; a harbinger.
   • 1822, Robert Nares, A Glossary [...]:

     Whifflers, or fifers, generally went first in a procession, from which circumstance the name was transferred to other persons who succeeded to that office, and at length was given to those who went forward merely to clear the way for the procession […] In the city of London, young freemen, who march at the head of their proper companies on the Lord Mayor's day, sometimes with flags, were called whifflers, or bachelor whifflers, not because they cleared the way, but because they went first, as whifflers did.

5. (US, dialectal) The goldeneye.

English

Noun

whiffles

1. plural of whiffle

Verb

whiffles

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of whiffle