Whiffle Definition

wĭfəl, hwĭf-

whiffled, whiffles, whiffling

verb

To blow fitfully; blow in puffs or gusts.

Webster's New World

To move lightly or erratically.

A butterfly whiffled past us.

American Heritage

To shift or veer about; vacillate.

Webster's New World

To blow or scatter with or as with a puff of wind.

Webster's New World

To make a light whistling noise.

American Heritage

noun

A short blow or gust.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Whiffle

Singular:

whiffle

Plural:

1662, in sense “flutter as blown by wind", as whiff +"Ž -le (“(frequentive)") and (onomatopoeia) sound of wind, particularly a leaf fluttering in unsteady wind; compare whiff. Sense “something small or insignificant" is from 1680.

From Wiktionary
Perhaps frequentative of whiff

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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