whimple

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English

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Etymology

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Compare whiffle.

Verb

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

  1. To whiffle; to veer.
  2. Archaic form of wimple.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for whimple”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)