whiffet

English

Etymology

whiff +‎ -et

Noun

whiffet (plural whiffets)

1. A little or faint whiff or puff.
   • 2013, Guy Davenport, The Guy Davenport Reader, →ISBN, page 82:

     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.

References

• “whiffet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.