WHIFFLE

Definitions: WHIFFLE

WHIFFLE

Intransitive verb

1. To change from one opinion or course to another; to use evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle.

2. To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about.

Noun

1. A fife or small flute.

Transitive verb

1. To wave or shake quickly; to cause to whiffle.

2. To disperse with, or as with, a whiff, or puff; to scatter.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "WHIFFLE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references)

Wind

Whiffle ball.

Respire, breathe, puff; whiff, whiffle; gasp, wheeze; snuff, snuffle; sniff, sniffle; sneeze, cough.

Crosswords: WHIFFLE

Books

• Encyclopedia of Pinball: Whiffle to Rocket, 1930-1933 (reference)

• Peter Whiffle (reference)

• Whiffle (reference)

• Whiffle Squeek (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "WHIFFLE": whiffle ball. Additional references.

Albanian

shpërndaj (allocate, allot, apportion, bestrew, broadcast, clear, deal, deliver, deploy, diffuse, disband, disembody, dish, dish out, dispel, dispense, disperse, disseminate, dissolve, distribute, diversify, give out, give rise to, hand out, intersperse, ladle, lay, lay out, mete, part, put out, scatter, share, shed, wipe), shfryj (blast, blow, bluster, decompress, frown, grumble, huff, inveigh, leak, let off steam, natter, puff, vituperate, wreak), nxjerr (belch, conclude, derive, discharge, discover, display, distil, distill, divulge, drag out, draw, educe, eject, elicit, emit, evolve, excrete, exhale, exhibit, exhume, expel, extract, extricate, extrude, feature, fish out, gain, generate, get off, get out, give away, give off, hatch, heave, hustle, incubate, infer, issue, lay out, leak, let off, let out, liberate, lift out, make out, move out, obtrude, out, pan out, pop, puff, pull, pull out, raise, release, rip out, rout, run against, secrete, send, spit, stick, stick out, take out, tear off, turf out, turn away, uncase, unearth, utter, vomit), largoj (avert, avoid, brush away, brush off, call off, cast out, despatch, dislodge, dismiss, dispatch, dispel, divert, eliminate, estrange, freeze out, keep away, keep off, lead off, lift out, pack off, push aside, push away, push off, put off, relegate, remove, seclude, stave off, take away, turn, wean). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هب نحو, ‏تذبذب (balance, fluctuation, gyrate, oscillate, pulsate, vacillate, vacillation, vibrate, vibration, wave, waver, weave, wiggle, wobble), ‏طار (fly, flying, plane, rise, stream, swarm, take off, take wing, volatilize, wing, winnow). (various references)

Bulgarian 

свистя (hiss, ping, pipe, scream, sing, swish, whistle, whiz, whoosh, zip), разпръсквам (bestride, disject, distribute, intersperse, lay, spread), колебая се (balance, boggle, chop, crane, demur, dilly dally, dither, falter, fluctuate, hang back, hesitate, hover, hum and haw, jib, pause, pendulate, scruple, seesaw, shilly shally, teeter, vacillate, vibrate, waver, wobble, yo-yo), отнасям (blow away, carry away, number, relate, snatch, subsume, take away, take off, walk away with, wash away, whip off), нося се без посока, меня посоката си, лутам се (beat about, divagate, rove), проявявам нерешителност, потрепвам (flinch, flutter, quail, thrill, tremble), повявам (begin to blow, fan), полъхвам (flicker, puff, waft), извъртам (boggle, dodge, double talk, equivocate, pull round, screw, shift, shuffle, sophisticate, tergiversate, twist, wangle). (various references)

Czech

toèit se (curve, go round, revolve, rotate, swim, swirl, turn, twirl, twist, veer). (various references)

French

voleter, souffler (whisper), se conduire capricieusement. (various references)

Greek 

φυσώ ατακτώσ, είμαι άτακτοσ, ανεμοσέρνομαι. (various references)

Hungarian

fújdogál (to tootle). (various references)

Italian

soffio (bladder, blister, blow, breath, bubble, murmur, puff, souffle, waft, whiff), sbuffo (chug, puff, qust, snort, whiff), folata (blow, jerk, jolt, push). (various references)

Pig Latin

ifflewhay

Portuguese

tremeluzir (flicker, glimmer, glissade, glitter, twinkle, wink), soprar levemente, mudar de direção (baffle, swerve). (various references)

Russian 

колебаться (be torn between, dilly dally, dither, fluctuate, fluctuating, go seesaw, hand back, hang in the balance, hesitate, hover, nutate, oscillate, oscillated, pendulate, seesaw, shilly shally, shuttling, stumble at, swing, teeter, vacillate, vibrate, waver, wavered, whiffled). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

rasterati (dispel, disperse), duvati na mahove. (various references)

Turkish

esmek (blow, breathe, fan, fan out, set), üflemek (blow, blow out, breathe upon, insufflate, puff, puff out, whiff), ıslık sesi çıkarmak. (various references)

Ukranian 

струмінь (current, fluent, jet, spout, stream, waftage), розвіювати (blow, chase, settle), вагатися (balance, boggle, deliberate, demur, dilly dally, falter, fluctuate, halt, hesitate, hover, oscillate, pause, stagger, vacillate, vibrate, waver), посвистувати, дути слабко. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "WHIFFLE": whiffled, whiffler, whifflers, whiffles, whiffletree, whiffletrees. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: whiff, while.

-3 letters: elhi, fief, fife, file, flew, heil, lief, life, lwei, wife, wile.

-4 letters: eff, elf, feh, few, fie, fil, hew, hie, iff, lei, lie.

-5 letters: ef, eh, el, he, hi, if, li, we.

+1 letter: whiffled, whiffler, whiffles.

+2 letters: whifflers.

+3 letters: wolffishes.

+4 letters: whiffletree.

+5 letters: whiffletrees.

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