Wiffleball vs Whiffle - What's the difference?
wiffleball | whiffle | Derived terms |
(US) A game similar to baseball, played with a lightweight bat and ball and suitable for children to play in confined areas. Also the ball used in that game.
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.
Whiffle is a derived term of wiffleball.
As nouns the difference between wiffleball and whiffle
is that wiffleball is a game similar to baseball, played with a lightweight bat and ball and suitable for children to play in confined areas. Also the ball used in that game while whiffle is a short blow or gust.As a verb whiffle is
to blow a short gust.wiffleball
English
(wikipedia wiffleball)Alternative forms
* wiffle-ball * wiffle ball * whiffleball * whiffle-ball * whiffle ballNoun
(-)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.
