whiffle
Americanverb (used without object)
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to blow in light or shifting gusts or puffs, as the wind; veer or toss about irregularly.
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to shift about; vacillate; be fickle.
verb (used with object)
verb
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(intr) to think or behave in an erratic or unpredictable way
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to blow or be blown fitfully or in gusts
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(intr) to whistle softly
Etymology
Origin of whiffle
Example Sentences
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Acquire some ping pong racquets and Whiffle balls and mark the lines of a pickleball court in your driveway with chalk.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2020
“The wind currents make the ball bob around like a Whiffle ball and it might break two or three different times on the way to the plate,” Hough says.
From Washington Post • Apr. 3, 2015
Whiffle ball is safe and easy, but it has fewer active players at any given time.
From Slate • Aug. 26, 2014
Forty-four years later, in 1942, Jacques Whiffle Willis was ready to turn his interest to account.
From Time Magazine Archive
“You want to go outside and play some Whiffle Ball with your old man before supper?”
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
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