whiffle

noun · verbB1

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noun

Plural noun:

whiffleswiffle

1.
A short blow or gust.
2.
(Maine)(Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine) A male haircut done with electric clippers.
3.
(obsolete)Something small or insignificant; a trifle.
4.
(obsolete)A fife or small flute.

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verb

V_es/s

whiffles

V_ing/Gerund

whiffling

V_ed/pp

whiffledwiffle

1.
To blow a short gust.
2.
To waffle, talk aimlessly.
3.
(UK)To waste time.
4.
To travel quickly with an accompanying wind-like sound; whizz, whistle along.
5.
(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.
6.
(intransitive)To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about.
7.
(transitive)To wave or shake quickly; to cause to whiffle.
8.
To change from one opinion or course to another; to use evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle.
9.
To disperse with, or as with, a whiff, or puff; to scatter.

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1662, in sense “flutter as blown by wind”, as whiff + -le and (onomatopoeia) sound of wind, particularly a leaf fluttering in unsteady wind; compare whiff. Sense “something small or insignificant” is from 1680.