whiffle
Americanverb (used without object)
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to blow in light or shifting gusts or puffs, as the wind; veer or toss about irregularly.
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to shift about; vacillate; be fickle.
verb (used with object)
verb
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(intr) to think or behave in an erratic or unpredictable way
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to blow or be blown fitfully or in gusts
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(intr) to whistle softly
Etymology
Origin of whiffle
Example Sentences
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Pickleball is played with a paddle and a plastic ball similar to a whiffle ball.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 28, 2022
You play with big wooden paddles, and the ball is basically a whiffle ball, plastic and perforated so it slows down in flight and doesn’t bounce very high.
From Slate • Aug. 10, 2020
Although, she does have a knack for tossing those little whiffle balls into the most unreachable places possible.
From Golf Digest • Jan. 14, 2020
We were playing whiffle ball, thwacking it across the backyard.
From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2018
There outside, in the nipping wintry air, he could hear the sounds of a liberty he no longer shared: the trotting of cab-horses, the cry of newsboys, the whiffle and hoot of motor-cars.
From King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties by Housman, Laurence
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