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–noun

1.	a handful or small bundle of straw, hay, or the like.

2.	any thin tuft, lock, mass, etc.: wisps of hair.

3.	a thin puff or streak, as of smoke; slender trace.

4.	a person or thing that is small, delicate, or barely discernible: a mere wisp of a lad; a wisp of a frown.

5.	a whisk broom.

Chiefly British Dialect.

a.	a pad or twist of straw, as used to rub down a horse.

b.	a twisted bit of straw used as a torch.

7.	a will-o'-the-wisp or ignis fatuus.

–verb (used with object)

8.	to twist into a wisp.

[Origin: 1300–50; ME wisp, wips; akin to wipe

]

—Related forms

wisplike, adjective

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ig·nis fat·u·us Audio Help (ĭg'nĭs fāch'ōō-əs) Pronunciation Key
n. pl. ig·nes fat·u·i (ĭg'nēz fāch'ōō-ī')

A phosphorescent light that hovers or flits over swampy ground at night, possibly caused by spontaneous combustion of gases emitted by rotting organic matter. Also called friar's lantern, jack-o'-lantern, will-o'-the-wisp, wisp.
Something that misleads or deludes; an illusion.

[Medieval Latin : Latin ignis, fire + Latin fatuus, foolish.]

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wisp Audio Help (wĭsp) Pronunciation Key
n.

A small bunch or bundle, as of straw, hair, or grass.
1. One that is thin, frail, or slight.
2. A thin or faint streak or fragment, as of smoke or clouds.
A fleeting trace or indication; a hint: a wisp of a smile.
A flock of birds, especially snipe. See Synonyms at flock¹.
See ignis fatuus.

v.   wisped, wisp·ing, wisps

v.   tr.
To twist into wisps or a wisp.

v.   intr.
To drift in wisps: smoke wisping from chimneys.

[Middle English.]

wisp'i·ly adv., wisp'i·ness (wĭs'pē-nĭs) n., wisp'y adj.

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wisp

c.1300, "handful or bundle of hay, grass, etc.," used for burning or cleaning or as a cushion; perhaps from an unrecorded O.E. word, cognate with Norw. and Swed. visp "wisp," of unknown origin; sometimes said to be connected with whisk or with M.L.G. and M.Du. wispel "a measure of grain." Meaning "thin, filmy portion" first attested 1836.

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wisp
noun
1.	a small tuft or lock; "wisps of hair"
2.	a small person; "a mere wisp of a girl"
3.	a small bundle of straw or hay
4.	a flock of snipe

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wisp [wisp] noun

thin strand
Example: a wisp of hair; a wisp of smoke

Arabic:	خُصْلَةٌ من الشَّعْر
Chinese (Simplified):	一缕，一束
Chinese (Traditional):	一縷，一束
Czech:	pramínek, proužek, chomáček
Danish:	tot
Dutch:	sliert
Estonian:	kihar, pahvak
Finnish:	kiehkura
French:	brin, fil
German:	das Büschel, der Fetzen
Greek:	τσουλούφι, τούφα, νήμα
Hungarian:	foszlány
Icelandic:	lokkur
Indonesian:	berkas tipis
Italian:	ciuffo; filo

Japanese:	一　　すじ
Korean:	한 웅큼, 작은 다발, 가닥
Latvian:	šķipsna; cirta; (dūmu u.tml.) strūkliņa; mutulītis
Lithuanian:	sruoga, gija
Norwegian:	tust, dott, strime
Polish:	pasemko
Portuguese (Brazil):	fio, filete
Portuguese (Portugal):	fio
Romanian:	şuviţă; fir; mănunchi, legătură
Russian:	клок; струйка
Slovak:	pramienok, prúžok
Slovenian:	pramen
Spanish:	brizna, mechón, voluta
Swedish:	slinga, strimma
Turkish:	tutam, lüle; iz

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Wisp
["An Experiment with a Self-Compiling Compiler for a Simple List-Processing Language", M.V. Wilkes, Ann Rev Automatic Programming 4:1-48. (1964)].

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Wisp

Whisk\, n. [Probably for wisk, and of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. visk a wisp; akin to Dan. visk, Sw. viska, D. wisch, OHG. wisc, G. wisch. See Wisp.]

1. The act of whisking; a rapid, sweeping motion, as of something light; a sudden motion or quick puff.

This first sad whisk Takes off thy dukedom; thou art but an earl. --J. Fletcher.

2. A small bunch of grass, straw, twigs, hair, or the like, used for a brush; hence, a brush or small besom, as of broom corn.

3. A small culinary instrument made of wire, or the like, for whisking or beating eggs, cream, etc. --Boyle.

4. A kind of cape, forming part of a woman's dress.

My wife in her new lace whisk. --Pepys.

5. An impertinent fellow. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.

6. A plane used by coopers for evening chines.

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Wisp

Whisp\, n. See Wisp.

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Wisp

Wisp\, n. [OE. wisp, wips; probably akin to D. & G. wisch, Icel. visk, and perhaps to L. virga a twig, rod. Cf. Verge a rod, Whisk, n.]

1. A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance.

In a small basket, on a wisp of hay. --Dryden.

2. A whisk, or small broom.

3. A Will-o'-the-wisp; an ignis fatuus.

The wisp that flickers where no foot can tread. --Tennyson.

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Wisp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wisped; p. pr. & vb. n. Wisping.]

1. To brush or dress, an with a wisp.

2. To rumple. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.

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