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Wiggle vs Whiffle - What's the difference?

wiggle | whiffle |

As verbs the difference between wiggle and whiffle

is that wiggle is (intransitive) to move with irregular, back and forward or side to side motions; to shake or jiggle while whiffle is to blow a short gust.

As nouns the difference between wiggle and whiffle

is that wiggle is a wiggling movement while whiffle is a short blow or gust.

wiggle

English

Verb

  • (intransitive) To move with irregular, back and forward or side to side motions; To shake or jiggle.
  • Her hips wiggle as she walks.
    The jelly wiggle s on the plate when you move it.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A wiggling movement.
  • She walked with a sexy wiggle .
  • (in the plural)
  • Derived terms

    * get a wiggle on * wiggle room * wiggly English frequentative verbs

    whiffle

    English

    (whiffling)

    Alternative forms

    * wiffle

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A short blow or gust
  • (obsolete) Something small or insignificant; a trifle.
  • (obsolete) A fife or small flute.
  • (Douce)

    Verb

    (whiffl)
  • 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.
  • (Dampier)
  • 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
  • A person of whiffling and unsteady turn of mind cannot keep close to a point of controversy.
  • To disperse with, or as with, a whiff, or puff; to scatter.
  • Derived terms

    * wiffleball

    References