whimple

whimple is the alternative spelling of wimple.

whimple is the archaic form of wimple.

Meaning of wimple

wimple (plural wimples)

A cloth which usually covers the head and is worn around the neck and chin. It was worn by women in medieval Europe and is still worn by nuns in certain orders.
- [T]he people all wore hosen and shoon and smocks and jupes and jerkins and wimples.1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 55
A fold or pleat in cloth.
A ripple, as on the surface of water.
A curve or bend.
A flag or streamer.

whimple (third-person singular simple present whimples, present participle whimpling, simple past and past participle whimpled)

Whimple

A village and civil parish in East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SY0497).

Noun
plural	whimples
Verb
third-person singular present	whimples
present participle	whimpling
past participle	whimpled
past	whimpled

Compare whiffle.

What does whimple mean?: Whimple means to whiffle; to veer.
What is whimple the alternative spelling of?: Whimple is the alternative spelling of wimple.
What part of speech is whimple?: Whimple can be a verb or a proper noun.
What is the past tense of whimple?: The past tense of whimple is whimpled.

Adapted from Wiktionary: whimple (page history and authors); Whimple (page history and authors); wimple (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: 2026-09-02

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