whiffle
名词 n.
动词 v.
英文释义
名词 n.
- A short blow or gust.
- A male haircut done with electric clippers.
- Something small or insignificant; a trifle.
- A fife or small flute.
动词 v.
- To blow a short gust.
- To waffle, talk aimlessly.
- To waste time.
- To travel quickly with an accompanying wind-like sound; whizz, whistle along.
- To descend rapidly from a height once the decision to land has been made, involving fast side-slipping first one way and then the other.
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To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about.
— [S]ometimes it may happen that ſuch a Cloud may appear ſeveral Mornings and Evenings, and we may not feel the effects of it, or but very little; yet we always provide againſt it; for a North never comes without ſuch a foreboding Cloud. But if the VVinds also vvhiffle about to the South, with fair flattering VVeather, it never fails.
- To wave or shake quickly; to cause to whiffle.
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To change from one opinion or course to another; to use evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle.
— [A] Perſon of whiffling and unſteady Turn of Mind, who cannot keep cloſe to a Point of Controverſy, […]
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To disperse with, or as with, a whiff, or puff; to scatter.
— This is a plain and obvious ſenſe of this Promiſe, […] againſt ſuch as would whiffle away all theſe Truths by reſolving them into a mere moral Allegorie.
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词源 1
1662, in sense “flutter as blown by wind”, as whiff + -le (“(frequentative)”) and (onomatopoeia) sound of wind, particularly a leaf fluttering in unsteady wind; compare whiff. Sense “something small or insignificant” is from 1680.
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1662, in sense “flutter as blown by wind”, as whiff + -le (“(frequentative)”) and (onomatopoeia) sound of wind, particularly a leaf fluttering in unsteady wind; compare whiff. Sense “something small or insignificant” is from 1680.
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