Crossword-Solution: WHIFFLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Whiffle | v. i. | To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about. |
| Whiffle | v. i. | To change from one opinion or course to another; to use evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle. |
| Whiffle | v. t. | To disperse with, or as with, a whiff, or puff; to scatter. |
| Whiffle | v. t. | To wave or shake quickly; to cause to whiffle. |
| Whiffle | n. | A fife or small flute. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “WHIFFLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Blow fitfully. | 1 answer |
| think or behave in an erratic or unpredictable way | 1 answer |
| Vacillate | 40 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CEEZMA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with WHIFFLE (5)
Can they? Then why does not the Italian, or Spaniard, or Affghan use his fists when insulted or outraged, instead of having recourse to the weapons which he has recourse to? Nobody can use his fists without being taught the use of them by those who have themselves been taught, no more than any one can "whiffle" without being taught by a master of the art.
Would not any one who wished to whiffle have to go to a master of the art? Assuredly! but where would he find one at the present day? The last of the whifflers hanged himself about a fortnight ago on a bell-rope in a church steeple of "the old town," from pure grief that there was no further demand for the exhibition of his art, there being no demand for whiffling since the discontinuation of Guildhall banquets.
Now much the same hand as he would make who should take up the whiffler's sword and try to whiffle, would he who should try to use his fists who had never had the advantage of a master.
John can hear a mile off the shaking of chains, traces, and whiffle-trees, and the creaking of its leathern braces, as the great bulk swings along piled high with trunks.
They're ornery little cusses and mean-actin.' They'll go straight enough if everything is all right, but let anythin' go wrong, a trace or a line, and they'll put it to you good and hard.” “I do not think I would be afraid of them,” replied the girl, reaching out her hand to stroke Pepper's nose, a movement which surprised that broncho so completely that he flew back violently upon the whiffle-tree, carrying Billy with him.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1962–1994).