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whiffet

whiffet noun: a little or faint whiff or puff.

Noun

whiffet (plural whiffets)

  1. A little or faint whiff or puff.
    • Outside the asylum gates a brass band huffed and thumped with brazen sneezes, silver whiffets, thundering sonorities and a detonating drum, the descant hitched together by a fat woman in a Tyrolese hat and the Erlkönig's longcoat that flocked upon her hips as she squeezed and pulled a Polish...2013, Guy Davenport, The Guy Davenport Reader, →ISBN, page 82

Forms of whiffet

pluralwhiffets

Origin of whiffet

From whiff + -et.

Questions about whiffet

What does whiffet mean?
Whiffet means a little or faint whiff or puff.
What part of speech is whiffet?
Whiffet is a noun.
What is the plural of whiffet?
The plural of whiffet is whiffets.

Words near whiffet in the dictionary

  1. whiffer
  2. whifferdale
  3. whifferdill
  4. whifferdills
  5. whiffers
  6. whiffet
  7. whiffets
  8. whiffier
  9. whiffiest
  10. whiffiness
  11. whiffing

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