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
The king-bird will worry the hawk as a whiffet dog will worry a bear.
From Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers by Burroughs, John
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
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
"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
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