Whiffle Definition
wĭfəl, hwĭf-
whiffled, whiffles, whiffling
verb
To blow fitfully; blow in puffs or gusts.
Webster's New World
To move lightly or erratically.
A butterfly whiffled past us.
American Heritage
To shift or veer about; vacillate.
Webster's New World
To blow or scatter with or as with a puff of wind.
Webster's New World
To make a light whistling noise.
American Heritage
Origin of Whiffle
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1662, in sense “flutter as blown by wind", as whiff +"Ž -le (“(frequentive)") and (onomatopoeia) sound of wind, particularly a leaf fluttering in unsteady wind; compare whiff. Sense “something small or insignificant" is from 1680.
From Wiktionary
Perhaps frequentative of whiff
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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