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WHIMPLE

Definitions: WHIMPLE

WHIMPLE

Intransitive verb

1. To whiffle; to veer.

Transitive verb

1. See Wimple.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "WHIMPLE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references)


Commercial Usage: WHIMPLE

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Books

  • A Nonsense Rhyme: The Sing-Sing Song of the Flapper-Jacker-Whacker-O (Tales of the Whimple Wood, V. 3) (reference)

  • The Wapiti Hoo: Tales from the Whimple Wood (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: WHIMPLE

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.
 
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  whimple

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: WHIMPLE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-h-i-l-m-p-w"

-1 letter: wimple.

-2 letters: impel, whelm, whelp, while.

-3 letters: elhi, heil, helm, help, hemp, lime, limp, lipe, lwei, mewl, mile, phew, pile, plew, plie, whim, whip, wile, wimp, wipe.

-4 letters: elm, hem, hep, hew, hie, him, hip, imp, lei, lie, lip, mel, mew, mil, peh, pew, phi, pie.

-5 letters: eh, el, em, he, hi, hm, li, me.

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

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Alternative Orthography: WHIMPLE


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

57 48 49 4D 50 4C 45

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: "WHIMPLE"


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Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "WHIMPLE"

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Public Service or Web Sites Triggered by: WHIMPLE