waff

How to use waff in a sentence

• "You are very much afraid of a waff of wind blowing on your cousin's name," I would cry.

  John Splendid | Neil Munro

• Waffle, wof′l, n. a kind of batter-cake, baked over the fire in an iron utensil of hinged halves called a waff′le-ī′ron.

  Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) | Various

• He was that prood he was walkin' sae far back on his heels that a waff o' win' wad hae couped him, and whustlin' 'Dark Lochnagar.'

  Erchie | (AKA Hugh Foulis) Neil Munro

• In Cumberland this apparition is known by the peasantry as a ‘swarth,’ and in Yorkshire by the name of a ‘waff.’

  The Ghost World | T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton) Dyer

• But the natives just call it a Wiff-waff—on account of the way it waves its tail, swimming, I imagine.

  The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle | Hugh Lofting