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WHIFFET

Definition: WHIFFET

WHIFFET

Noun

1. A little whiff or puff.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: WHIFFET

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Infant

Child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin; bantling, bratling; elf. youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master. scion; sap, seedling; tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow; codlin,codling; foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten; lamb, lambkin; aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: WHIFFET

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  whiffet

8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: WHIFFET

Language Translations for "WHIFFET"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Portuguese

  

pessoa que não vale nada. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ничтожество (insect, jack sprat, jack-straw, lay, nitwit, nobody, nothingness, nought, nullity, whippersnapper, whipper-snapper). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

цуцик, димок (puff). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người bất tài (nobody, nothing). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: WHIFFET

Derivations

Words beginning with "WHIFFET": whiffets. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "WHIFFET"

Words rhyming with "WHIFFET" (pronounced 'Whif"fet'): Alfet, Beaufet. (additional references)

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Anagrams: WHIFFET

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-f-f-h-i-t-w"

-2 letters: fifth, thief, whiff, white, withe.

-3 letters: fief, fife, heft, teff, thew, tiff, weft, whet, whit, wife, wite, with.

-4 letters: eff, eft, eth, feh, fet, few, fie, fit, het, hew, hie, hit, iff, tew, the, tie, wet, wit.

-5 letters: ef, eh, et, he, hi, if, it, ti, we.

 Words containing the letters "e-f-f-h-i-t-w"
 

+1 letter: whiffets.

 

+4 letters: whiffletree.

 

+5 letters: whiffletrees.

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

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Alternative Orthography: WHIFFET


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 48 49 46 46 45 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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Bibliographic Items: "WHIFFET"


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Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "WHIFFET"

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Public Service or Web Sites Triggered by: WHIFFET