Terms vs Whiffler - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) One who whiffles, or frequently changes his or her opinion or course.
(obsolete) One who argues evasively; a trifler.
(obsolete) One who plays on a whiffle; a fifer or piper.
(obsolete) An officer who went before a procession to clear the way, by blowing a horn or otherwise; hence, any person who marched at the head of a procession; a harbinger.
(US, dialect) The goldeneye.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between terms and whiffler
is that terms is while whiffler is (obsolete) one who whiffles, or frequently changes his or her opinion or course.whiffler
English
Noun
(en noun)- Every whiffler in a laced coat who frequents the chocolate house shall talk of the constitution. — Swift.
- Which like a mighty whiffler 'fore the king, / Seems to prepare his way. — Shakespeare.
- Whifflers , or fifers, generally went first in a procession, from which circumstance the name was transferred to other persons who succeeded to that office, and at length was given to those who went forward merely to clear the way for the procession In the city of London, young freemen, who march at the head of their proper companies on the Lord Mayor's day, sometimes with flags, were called whifflers, or bachelor whifflers, not because they cleared the way, but because they went first, as whifflers did. — Nares.