whiffet
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of whiffet
Example Sentences
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This cinemactor invariably plays the obnoxious, precocious whiffet who upsets plans, causes heartaches by his wilfulness.
From Time Magazine Archive
One little whiffet told Dyckman to his face that it was a dastardly thing he had done.
From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert
How it rebukes by its tough and equable serenity all weathers, this gusty-temper'd little whiffet, man, that runs indoors at a mite of rain or snow.
From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Whitman, Walt
The man who packed our outfit up the gulch for us had a little whiffet dog with him, and in some manner he neglected to take the dog back with him.
From Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. by Woodcock, Eldred Nathaniel
Does that little whiffet of a roan mare think she's going to show me her heels?
From The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him by Ford, Paul Leicester
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