Whiffed vs Whiffled - What's the difference?
whiffed | whiffled |
(whiff)
A waft; a brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air
An odour carried briefly through the air
* (rfdate)
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), Chapter 2
A short inhalation of breath, especially of smoke from a cigarette or pipe
* Longfellow
(figurative) a slight sign of something; a glimpse
* 2012 , Ben Smith, Leeds United 2-1 Everton [http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19632366]
(baseball) A strike (from the batter’s perspective)
The megrim, a fish .
To waft.
To sniff.
(baseball) To strike out.
(slang) to attempt to strike and miss, especially being off-balance/vulnerable after missing.
To throw out in whiffs; to consume in whiffs; to puff.
To carry or convey by a whiff, or as by a whiff; to puff or blow away.
* Ben Jonson
(colloquial) Having a strong or unpleasant odor.
* 2002: Jim Rozen, Way oil in
(whiffle)
A short blow or gust
(obsolete) Something small or insignificant; a trifle.
(obsolete) A fife or small flute.
to blow a short gust
to waffle, talk aimlessly
(British) to waste time
to travel quickly, whizz, whistle, with an accompanying wind-like sound
(ornithology, of a bird) to descending rapidly from a height once the decision to land has been made, involving fast side-slipping first one way and then the other
To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about.
To wave or shake quickly; to cause to whiffle.
To change from one opinion or course to another; to use evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle.
* I. Watts
To disperse with, or as with, a whiff, or puff; to scatter.
As verbs the difference between whiffed and whiffled
is that whiffed is past tense of whiff while whiffled is past tense of whiffle.whiffed
English
Verb
(head)whiff
English
Noun
(en noun)- everyone has always known, widely promiscuous heterosexual men have, as I say, a whiff of the bathhouse about them.
- A whiff of rotten eggs had vanquished the pale clouded yellows which came pelting across the orchard and up Dods Hill and away on to the moor
- The skipper, he blew a whiff from his pipe, / And a scornful laugh laughed he.
- This was a rare whiff of the big-time for a club whose staple diet became top-flight football for so long - the glamour was in short supply, however. Thousands of empty seats and the driving Yorkshire rain saw to that.
Synonyms
* puff * sniff * waftVerb
(en verb)- Old Empedocles, who, when he leaped into Etna, having a dry, sear body, and light, the smoke took him, and whiffed him up into the moon.
Adjective
(en adjective)rec.crafts.metalworking
- Whoo boy that gear oil is pretty whiff . If you actually do this, spend the extra money for the synthetic gear oil as it will not have as bad a sulfur stink as the regular stuff.
Derived terms
* whifflewhiffled
English
Verb
(head)whiffle
English
(whiffling)Alternative forms
* wiffleNoun
(en noun)- (Douce)
Verb
(whiffl)- (Dampier)
- A person of whiffling and unsteady turn of mind cannot keep close to a point of controversy.