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Whiles vs Whilks - What's the difference?

whiles | whilks |

As nouns the difference between whiles and whilks

is that whiles is plural of lang=en while whilks is plural of whilk.

As an adverb whiles

is sometimes; at times.

As a conjunction whiles

is while.

As a verb whiles

is third-person singular of while.

whiles

English

Adverb

(-)
  • (archaic, or, Scotland) sometimes; at times
  • *
  • (archaic, or, Scotland) meanwhile
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • the good knight whiles humming to himself the lay of some majored troubadour

    Conjunction

    (English Conjunctions)
  • (archaic, or, dialect) while
  • * 1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) , Act IV, Scene 1, line 217
    • for it so falls out, / That what we have we prize not to the worth / Whiles' we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, / Why, then we rack the value, then we find / The virtue that possession would not show us / ' Whiles it was ours.

    Noun

    (head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (while)
    • English terms with homophones ----

    whilks

    English

    Noun

    (head)