whiffet

W4H4I1F4F4E1T1

noun

A little or faint whiff or puff.

Scrabble 19
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Meanings

nounwhiffet (plural whiffets)

plural whiffets

  1. A little or faint whiff or puff.
    1 more example

    Outside the asylum gates a brass band huffed and thumped with brazen sneezes, silver whiffets, thundering sonorities and a detonating drum, the descant hitched together by a fat woman in a Tyrolese hat and the Erlkönig's longcoat that flocked upon her hips as she squeezed and pulled a Polish accordion as big as a sheep, dipping her knees on the saltarelli and rolling her eyes in a clown's gloat.

    2013, Guy Davenport, The Guy Davenport Reader, →ISBN, page 82

Origin

From whiff + -et.

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APA

whiffet. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whiffet

MLA

“whiffet.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whiffet. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “whiffet,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whiffet.

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