Whuffle vs Whiffle - What's the difference?
whuffle | whiffle |
To make a low snuffling or blowing sound.
* 2010 , Peggy Nicholson, Serpent in Turquoise (page 72)
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.
In intransitive terms the difference between whuffle and whiffle
is that whuffle is to make a low snuffling or blowing sound while whiffle is to waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about.As a noun whiffle is
a short blow or gust.whuffle
English
Verb
(whuffl)- Poquita whuffled and jerked at her lead, trying to swing right around. “No, no, we can't go home yet. Not for a silly snake. We just scared him is all.”
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.