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
"Why, powder is getting scarce," he replied, "and I find I can do that whiffet as much harm by snapping my finger and thumb every three minutes."
From Stories of Our Naval Heroes Every Child Can Read by Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman
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
By-and-bye, when school was in and the dominie dozed, I would lower that timid little whiffet of a Puritan maid out through the window to the turnstile.
From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
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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