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wait-a-whiles

wait-a-whiles is the plural of wait-a-while.

Meaning of wait-a-while

Noun

wait-a-while (plural wait-a-whiles)

  1. (South Africa) Synonym of wait-a-bit.
    Synonyms:
    wait-a-bit
  2. (Australia) Any of several thorny Australian vines or shrubs which impede passage, especially Acacia cuspidifolia of Western Australia, Smilax australis of eastern Australia and the Northern Territory, and lawyer vine.
    • In the new clearing by the creek where he had felled most of the big stuff, she attacked the landscape with anger, grubbing out the wait-a-while and bush-sword that was still guzzling round the stumps.1979, Thea Astley, Hunting the Wild Pineapple, Nelson, page 136

Questions about wait-a-whiles

What is wait-a-whiles the plural of?
Wait-a-whiles is the plural of wait-a-while.

Words near wait-a-whiles in the dictionary

  1. wait'll
  2. wait-a-bit
  3. wait-a-bits
  4. wait-a-minute
  5. wait-a-while
  6. wait-a-whiles
  7. wait-and-see
  8. wait-awhile
  9. wait-free
  10. wait-list
  11. wait-listed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wait-a-whiles (page history and authors); wait-a-while (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.

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