Word.ws English Dictionary

sifflication

sifflication noun: supplication, petition, importuning, or wheedling.

Noun

sifflication (plural sifflications)

  1. supplication, petition, importuning, or wheedling
    • "Weel, then — I am not free to say, that maybe I might not just slip into the King's hand a wee bit sifflication of mine ain, along with my Lord's, just to save his Majesty trouble — and that he might consider them baith at ance."
      " A supplication of your own, you varlet!" said his master.
      " Ou...1822, Walter Scott, The fortunes of Nigel

Forms of sifflication

pluralsifflications

Questions about sifflication

What does sifflication mean?
Sifflication means supplication, petition, importuning, or wheedling.
What part of speech is sifflication?
Sifflication is a noun.
What is the plural of sifflication?
The plural of sifflication is sifflications.

Words near sifflication in the dictionary

  1. sifflements
  2. siffles
  3. sifflet
  4. sifflets
  5. sifflicate
  6. sifflication
  7. sifflications
  8. siffling
  9. Sifford
  10. Siffords
  11. sifilet

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sifflication (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “sifflication.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sifflication. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.