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whiffle

[ hwif-uhl, wif- ]

verb (used without object)

, whif·fled, whif·fling.
  1. to blow in light or shifting gusts or puffs, as the wind; veer or toss about irregularly.
  2. to shift about; vacillate; be fickle.


verb (used with object)

, whif·fled, whif·fling.
  1. to blow with light, shifting gusts.

whiffle

/ ˈwɪfəl /

verb

  1. intr to think or behave in an erratic or unpredictable way
  2. to blow or be blown fitfully or in gusts
  3. intr to whistle softly


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Word History and Origins

Origin of whiffle1

First recorded in 1550–60; whiff 1 + -le

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Word History and Origins

Origin of whiffle1

C16: frequentative of whiff 1

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Example Sentences

Our own Rx includes fat, colored chalk for drawing hopscotch boxes, plus Whiffle Ball and water balloons.

Widder Morse wants to ape these well-to-do folks that live tother end o Whiffle Street.

Whiffle Street was an easy slope toward the elbow, where Jess Morse and her mother lived.

But the postman never came near the little cottage at the elbow in Whiffle Street, all that day.

Mrs. Prentice had run into a quiet side street, not two blocks from the cottage at the foot of Whiffle Street.

She left her basket in the kitchen, saw that her mother was busy at her desk, and ran up Whiffle Street hill to the Belding house.

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