whiffle
- Noun. A short blow or gust.
- Noun. (obsolete) Something small or insignificant; a trifle.
- Noun. (obsolete) A fife or small flute.
- Verb. to blow a short gust.
- Verb. to waffle, talk aimlessly.
- Verb. (British) to waste time.
- Verb. to travel quickly, whizz, whistle, with an accompanying wind-like sound.
- Verb. (ornithology, of a bird) to descending 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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