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
"I never felt sorry for the little whiffet before," said the fat jailer, when he came out.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 by Various
He was a little whiffet of a man—“looked like a figure on a New Year’s cake,” Bobby Hargrew said.
From The Girls of Central High on the Stage The Play That Took The Prize by Gertrude W. Morrison
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 Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
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 Walt Whitman
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