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wisp
[ wisp ]
noun
- a handful or small bundle of straw, hay, or the like.
- any thin tuft, lock, mass, etc.:
wisps of hair.
- a thin puff or streak, as of smoke; slender trace.
- a person or thing that is small, delicate, or barely discernible:
a mere wisp of a lad; a wisp of a frown.
- a whisk broom.
- Chiefly British Dialect.
- a pad or twist of straw, as used to rub down a horse.
- a twisted bit of straw used as a torch.
- a will-o'-the-wisp or ignis fatuus.
verb (used with object)
- to twist into a wisp.
WISP
1/ wɪsp /
acronym for
- Wireless Information Service Provider: an internet service provider set up to deal with and deliver internet services to clients through wireless access points
wisp
2/ wɪsp /
noun
- a thin, light, delicate, or fibrous piece or strand, such as a streak of smoke or a lock of hair
- a small bundle, as of hay or straw
- anything slender and delicate
a wisp of a girl
- a mere suggestion or hint
- a flock of birds, esp snipe
verb
- introften foll byaway to move or act like a wisp
- dialect.tr to twist into a wisp
- tr to groom (a horse) with a wisp of straw, etc
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Derived Forms
- ˈwispˌlike, adjective
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Other Words From
- wisplike adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of wisp1
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Example Sentences
A thin man with a wisp of a goatee beard, he struggles with a stutter to explain what happened to him that day.
Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
Rosemary flitted about like a will o' the wisp, and finally went to the window, where she stood looking wistfully out.
As she left the wood she saw a big hay-stack, as firm and shapely of outline as a house, not a loose wisp anywhere.
A wisp of wheat was knotted round her neck for a necklace, and a perfect sheaf of it in her hair.
I was told that subsequent to that matter my will-o'-the-wisp was coming on here positively.
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