wisp

noun · verbA1

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noun

Plural noun:

wisps

1.
(countable, uncountable)A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; a twisted handful of something; any slender, flexible structure or group.
A wisp of hair escaped her barrette and whipped wildly in the wind.
a wisp of a child
2.
(countable, uncountable)A small, thin line of cloud, smoke, or steam.
A wisp of smoke rose from the candle for a few moments after he blew it out.
3.
(countable, uncountable)A whisk, or small broom.
4.
(countable, uncountable)A will o' the wisp, or ignis fatuus.
5.
(countable, uncountable)An immeasurable, indefinable essence of life; soul.
6.
(archaic, countable, uncountable)A flock of snipe.
7.
(uncountable)A disease affecting the feet of cattle.

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verb

V_es/s

wisps

V_ing/Gerund

wisping

V_ed/pp

wisped

1.
(transitive)To brush or dress, as with a wisp.
2.
(UK, dialectal, obsolete)(UK, dialect, obsolete) To rumple.
3.
(intransitive)To produce a wisp, as of smoke.
4.
(transitive)To emit in wisps.

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will o' the wisp

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English wispe, wyspe, wips, wipse, perhaps from an unrecorded Old English *wisp, *wips. Cognate with wisp, wisp, Norwegian bokmål/Swedish/Bornholm Danish visp (handful or bundle of grass, hay, etc.). Akin also to /wispel.