whiffling
verb
Meaning
- To blow a short gust.
- To waffle, talk aimlessly.
- To waste time.
- To travel quickly with an accompanying wind-like sound; whizz, whistle along.
- (of a bird) To descend rapidly from a height once the decision to land has been made, involving fast side-slipping first one way and then the other.
- To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about.
- Aimless talk; waffle.
- A breathy noise, as of a horse or a bird.
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