whimple

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verb

To whiffle; to veer.

Scrabble 17
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Meanings

whimple1

nounwhimple (plural whimples)

plural whimples

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of wimple (“head covering”).

whimple2

verbwhimple (third-person singular simple present whimples, present participle whimpling, simple past and past participle whimpled)

present singular third person whimples · participle present whimpling · participle past whimpled · past whimpled

  1. archaicArchaic form of wimple.

    Yet she much whiter ; but the same did hide Under a vele , that whimpled was full low

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
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    Every morning I used to awake surprised by the song of the Naiad, the little runnel whimpling down its bed of rushes, stone, and sand; and the response of the palms making music in the land-breeze.

    1879, Richard Francis Burton, The Land of Midian

whimple3

verbwhimple (third-person singular simple present whimples, present participle whimpling, simple past and past participle whimpled)

present singular third person whimples · participle present whimpling · participle past whimpled · past whimpled

  1. obsoleteTo whiffle; to veer.

Whimple4

proper noun
  1. A village and civil parish in East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SY0497).

Origin

Compare whiffle.

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