whiffle (English, verb)
expansion: whiffle (third-person singular simple present whiffles, present participle whiffling, simple past and past participle whiffled)
Senses:
glosses: To blow a short gust.
glosses: To waffle, talk aimlessly.
glosses: To waste time.
tags: UK
glosses: To travel quickly with an accompanying wind-like sound; whizz, whistle along.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: To descend rapidly from a height once the decision to land has been made, involving fast side-slipping first one way and then the other.
raw_tags: of a bird
glosses: To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about.
tags: intransitive
glosses: To wave or shake quickly; to cause to whiffle.
tags: transitive
glosses: To change from one opinion or course to another; to use evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle.
glosses: To disperse with, or as with, a whiff, or puff; to scatter.
Forms:
form: whiffles
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: whiffling
tags: participle
present
form: whiffled
tags: participle
past
form: whiffled
tags: past
form: wiffle
tags: alternative