Risped vs Wisped - What's the difference?
risped | wisped |
(risp)
to rub together, to rasp or grate
* 1974 , Guy Davenport, Tatlin! :
(wisp)
A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; any slender, flexible structure or group.
* Dryden
A whisk, or small broom.
A will o' the wisp, or ignis fatuus.
* Tennyson
As a noun risped
is past tense of risp.As a verb wisped is
past tense of wisp.risped
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Noun
(head)Anagrams
*risp
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Verb
(en verb)- that Greek waste silent but for the risp of the tettix and the wash of listless wind through the spare grass.
Anagrams
* *wisped
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Verb
(head)wisp
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Noun
(en noun)- A wisp of smoke rose from the candle for a few moments after he blew it out.
- A wisp of hair escaped her barrette and whipped wildly in the wind.
- in a small basket, on a wisp of hay
- the wisp that flickers where no foot can tread