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whiffets

whiffets is the plural of whiffet.

Meaning of whiffet

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

Questions about whiffets

What is whiffets the plural of?
Whiffets is the plural of whiffet.

Words near whiffets in the dictionary

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

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