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waff

[ waf, wahf ]

noun

, Scot. and North England.
  1. a puff or blast of air, wind, etc.
  2. a brief view; glance.


waff

/ wɑːf; wæf /

noun

  1. a gust or puff of air
  2. a glance; glimpse


verb

  1. to flutter or cause to flutter

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Word History and Origins

Origin of waff1

1590–1600; derivative of dial. waff to wave

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Word History and Origins

Origin of waff1

C16: Scottish and northern English variant of wave

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Example Sentences

"You are very much afraid of a waff of wind blowing on your cousin's name," I would cry.

Waffle, wof′l, n. a kind of batter-cake, baked over the fire in an iron utensil of hinged halves called a Waff′le-ī′ron.

He was that prood he was walkin' sae far back on his heels that a waff o' win' wad hae couped him, and whustlin' 'Dark Lochnagar.'

In Cumberland this apparition is known by the peasantry as a ‘swarth,’ and in Yorkshire by the name of a ‘waff.’

But the natives just call it a Wiff-Waff—on account of the way it waves its tail, swimming, I imagine.

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