whiffle
vi. 风一阵阵地吹, 风时时变向, (喻)反复无常, 动摇不定 vt. 吹散
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1.
A short blow or gust.
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2.
A male haircut done with electric clippers.
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Something small or insignificant; a trifle.
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A fife or small flute.
废旧
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To blow a short gust.
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To waffle, talk aimlessly.
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To waste time.
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To travel quickly with an accompanying wind-like sound; whizz, whistle along.
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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.
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To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about.
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To wave or shake quickly; to cause to whiffle.
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To change from one opinion or course to another; to use evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle.
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To disperse with, or as with, a whiff, or puff; to scatter.
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1662, in sense “flutter as blown by wind”, as whiff + -le (“(frequentative)”) and (onomatopoeia) sound of wind, particularly a leaf fluttering in unsteady wind; compare whiff. Sense “something small or insignificant” is from 1680.
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