Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A little whiff.
- noun A whipper-snapper; a whipster; any insignificant or worthless person.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A little whiff or puff.
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- noun A little
whiff orpuff .
Etymologies
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Examples
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That is how the whiffet pass on information from one generation to the next.
Tides from the New Worlds: Anakoinosis « A Working Title 2009
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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"Don't come to me with your troubles, you nasty little whiffet," she cried.
The Iron Puddler Davis, James J 1922
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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
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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
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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
treeseed commented on the word whiffet
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
noun
Etymology: probably alteration of whippet
Date: 1839
: a small, young, or unimportant person
February 6, 2008
reesetee commented on the word whiffet
Cute word. :-)
February 6, 2008