wispy - Definitions from Dictionary.com

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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wispy
adjective
1.	thin and weak; "a wispy little fellow with small hands and feet"- Edmund Wilson [syn: wisplike]
2.	lacking clarity or distinctness; "a dim figure in the distance"; "only a faint recollection"; "shadowy figures in the gloom"; "saw a vague outline of a building through the fog"; "a few wispy memories of childhood" [syn: dim]

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ˈwispy adjective

Example: wispy hair

Arabic:	شَعْرٌ مُخَصَّل
Chinese (Simplified):	纤弱的
Chinese (Traditional):	纖弱的
Czech:	jemný, chomáčkovitý
Danish:	tjavset
Dutch:	sliertig
Estonian:	sasine
Finnish:	hapsottava
French:	fin
German:	buschig
Greek:	που έχουν τούφες
Hungarian:	vékony
Icelandic:	rytjulegur
Indonesian:	tipis
Italian:	sottile

Japanese:	ほっそりした
Korean:	성긴
Latvian:	par matiem plāni, savēlušies
Lithuanian:	plonas, styrantis
Norwegian:	tustet, pjusket, tjafset
Polish:	wiotki
Portuguese (Brazil):	fino
Portuguese (Portugal):	fino
Romanian:	cu şuviţe
Russian:	редкий
Slovak:	jemný
Slovenian:	štrenast
Spanish:	tenue, delgado
Swedish:	tovig, stripig
Turkish:	bir tutam; incecik