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wisplike

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wisp

  [wisp]
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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.
6. 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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Word Origin & History

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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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