Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An erroneous form of wimple.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To whiffle; to veer.
  • transitive verb See wimple.

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  • verb To whiffle; to veer.

Etymologies

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Compare whiffle.

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Examples

  • MsPhD, plus a slew of other folks who regularly comment on the posts, such as whimple, who don't appear to have their own blogs.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2009

  • And his character as a sportsman being now well established, he sometimes permitted himself, even when the game was afoot, to loiter in the vicinity of the path on which he could at least mark the flutter of the gray whimple of Anne of Geierstein, and the outline of the form which it shrouded.

    Anne of Geierstein 2008

  • Also, apparently there are varous old old English spellings of the wimple, as whimpel, whimpel and whimple!

    Ann Widdecombe for London Mayor? 2007

  • As for when I found the time to ask people if they knew what a wimple/whimpel/whimple was - it was a quick comment over over a drink at lunchtime.

    Ann Widdecombe for London Mayor? 2007

  • And it's wimple, not whimple, and it was a standard piece of female headgear in the middle ages, so is not analagous to a hairshirt.

    Ann Widdecombe for London Mayor? 2007

  • Wrinkled/Verity - She might be refreshingly unPC (and that may be her one redeeming feature), but she still believes in public floggings, making the whimple compulsory, and that the Church should control social policy (that's the Catholic Church by the way - not cuddly liberal Anglicans).

    Ann Widdecombe for London Mayor? 2007

  • The whole point of my comment about 'whimple, wimple, wimpel etc, is that there was no defined agreed spelling of it or any other word in old English!

    Ann Widdecombe for London Mayor? 2007

  • Looking round, there was the old dame down upon the roadway, with her red whimple flying on the breeze, while the two rogues, black and white, stooped over her, wresting away from her the penny and such other poor trifles as were worth the taking.

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • Behind him his serving wench, her blue whimple over her head, and one hand thrust forth to bear the lanthorn which threw a golden bar of light along her master's path.

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • By the side of the track the old dame was standing, fastening her red whimple once more round her head.

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

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