Whiffle definition
To make a light whistling noise.
verb
To blow, displace, or scatter with gusts of air.
The breeze whiffled the blinds.
verb
To blow in light gusts; puff.
The wind whiffled through the trees.
verb
To move lightly or erratically.
A butterfly whiffled past us.
verb
To blow fitfully; blow in puffs or gusts.
verb
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To shift or veer about; vacillate.
verb
To blow or scatter with or as with a puff of wind.
verb
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(UK) To waste time.
verb
(ornithology, of a bird) To descending rapidly from a height once the decision to land has been made, involving fast side-slipping first one way and then the other.
verb
(intransitive) To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about.
verb
To wave or shake quickly; to cause to whiffle.
verb
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To change from one opinion or course to another; to use evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle.
verb
Origin of whiffle
- Perhaps frequentative of whiff
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From Wiktionary