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whifferdill

whifferdill is the alternative form of wifferdill.

Meaning of wifferdill

Noun

wifferdill (plural wifferdills)

  1. An elaborate, multiaxis aerobatic manoeuvre, especially one in which an aircraft makes a series of very tight turns in order to reverse its direction of travel.
    • Doolittle executed a grand wifferdill—rapidly climbing to exchange airspeed for altitude—after completing the course, then a perfect landing.2003, Dik Alan Daso, Doolittle: Aerospace Visionary, →ISBN, page 20

Forms of whifferdill

pluralwhifferdills

Questions about whifferdill

What is whifferdill the alternative form of?
Whifferdill is the alternative form of wifferdill.

Words near whifferdill in the dictionary

  1. whiffed
  2. whiffenpoof
  3. whiffenpoofs
  4. whiffer
  5. whifferdale
  6. whifferdill
  7. whifferdills
  8. whiffers
  9. whiffet
  10. whiffets
  11. whiffier

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