whiffet

That is how the whiffet pass on information from one generation to the next.

Tides from the New Worlds: Anakoinosis « A Working Title 2009

In exchange for human technology, the whiffet people basically hand over their offspring as indentured servants, or realistically, as slaves.

Tides from the New Worlds: Anakoinosis « A Working Title 2009

Read it to find out how the master and NN-721 begin to change the whiffet people into something others might recognize as human.

Tides from the New Worlds: Anakoinosis « A Working Title 2009

The master sees something very wrong with this relationship, and does anything and everything possible to try and get his whiffet to see the realities and problems inherent in a society based on slavery.

Tides from the New Worlds: Anakoinosis « A Working Title 2009

"I never felt sorry for the little whiffet before," said the fat jailer, when he came out.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Various

I was washed out o 'the riggin', an 'when I come to I was on the beach here, wreckage all round, an' the sun shinin 'bright as a whiffet, an' me all beat out an 'water-logged.

Isle o' Dreams Frederick Ferdinand Moore 1930

"Don't come to me with your troubles, you nasty little whiffet," she cried.

The Iron Puddler Davis, James J 1922

He was a little whiffet of a man – "looked like a figure on a New Year's cake," Bobby Hargrew said.

The Girls of Central High on the Stage: or, The Play That Took the Prize 1914

One little whiffet told Dyckman to his face that it was a dastardly thing he had done.

We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914

First I miss seein 'this fire-eater bate the face off the big ilephant, Corrigan, an' yisterday I was figgerin 'on goin' to town -- but didn't; an 'I miss seein' that little whiffet of a Braman flyin 'through the windy.

'Firebrand' Trevison Charles Alden Seltzer 1908