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Whiffle v. i. (past & past part. whiffled; pres. part. whiffling)

To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about.

To change from one opinion or course to another; to use evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle. "A person of whiffing and unsteady turn of mind can not keep close to a point of controversy."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Whiffle" Quotes from Famous Books

... go on to Edinburgh, where I hope to meet a letter from you. The last I heard from Low, he had sold sixty thousand of "Dred," and it was still selling well. I have not yet heard from America how it goes. The critics scold, and whiffle, and dispute about it, but on the whole it is a success, so the "Times" says, with much coughing, hemming, and standing first on one foot and then on the other. If the "Times" were sure we should beat in the next election, "Dred" would go up in the scale; but as long as there is that ...

— The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe • Charles Edward Stowe

... widow and in straitened circumstances, and sometimes Jess was cramped for clothing as well as spending money. She lived at the "poverty-stricken" end of Whiffle Street, just as the Beldings lived at the ...

— The Girls of Central High on Lake Luna - or, The Crew That Won • Gertrude W. Morrison

... 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, ...

— The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail • Ralph Connor

... have stigmatized his informant as a liar—yet they had. For apart from any question of success or fame he had loved horses from the day when as a baby he had first sprawled in the straw of his Uncle Mike Aherne's livery and hitching stable in Dublin City. He had grown up to the scrape and whiffle of the currycomb, breathing ammonia, cracking the skin of his infantile knuckles with harness soap. Out of the love that he bore for the beautiful dumb brutes grew an understanding that in time became almost ...

— By Advice of Counsel • Arthur Train