whiffle

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I for my part could not insist; who, indeed, can defend the American accent, which is not so much an accent as a whiffle, a snuffle, a twang?

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  1. intransitive verb To move or think erratically; vacillate.
  2. intransitive verb To blow in fitful gusts; puff: The wind whiffled through the trees.
  3. intransitive verb To whistle lightly.

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  • Longoria had only been swinging a whiffle-ball bat and a broomstick in the past week because the weight of a regular bat was too much for his wrist. —  ESPN.com
  • * Signs you have too many kids: Family whiffle-ball game has larger attendance than Devil Rays 'games. —  RockyMountainNews.com
  • You have condensed and crystallised all the whiffle-whaffle of the past few years into just a few succinct readable paragraphs. —  Muti
  • Nobody can use his fists without being taught the use of them by those who have themselves been taught, no more than any one can "whiffle" without being taught by a master of the art. —  The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro"
  • Now much the same hand as he would make who should take up the whiffler's sword and try to whiffle, would he who should try to use his fists who had never had the advantage of a master. —  The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro"
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Perhaps frequentative of whiff.

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  1. Freq. of whiff;perhaps confused with D. weifelen, waver.
  2. from whiffle, v., in sense of orig. verb.
 

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/ˈhwɪfl/
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