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Waff v.1. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Waff v.1 Chiefly north. Also 5–7 waffe, 9 Sc. whaff. [var. of WAIVE v.2 or of WAVE v., with onomatopœic modification. Cf. WAFT v.2]

1   † 1.  trans. To put away with a wave of the hand. Obs.

2 c. 1440.  York Myst., xxxi. 248. ii. Dux.… Youre fauchone hym flaies…. Rex. Nowe lely I leue þe, And therfore schall y waffe it away.

3   † 2.  intr. To blow (as the wind). Obs.

4 c. 1440.  York Myst., xii. 54. Þir wise wordis ware noght wroght in waste, To waffe and wende away als wynde.

5   3.  trans. Of the wind: To cause (something) to move to and fro.

6 1513.  Douglas, Æneis, I. vi. 26 (1553), 16 b. Venus … With wind waffing [v.r. waving] hir haris lowsit of trace. Ibid., VI. viii. 113. Quhidder waffit vilsum by storm of the se, Or at command of goddis, come thow, quod he?

7   b.  intr. To wave to and fro; to flutter in the wind; also trans. of a bird, to move (the wings) in flight.

8 1834.  J. Wilson, Noct. Ambr., Wks. 1856, IV. 97. Rover begins snokin and twinin himsel in a serpentine style,… wi’ his fanlike tail whaffin.

9 1856.  J. Ballantine, Poems, 59. The rags waffin’ round her wad wauken ruth In a mair stieve-breasted chield than me.

10 1861.  R. Quinn, Heather Lintie (1863), 72. Aff they set on tiptae flicht, Waffin’ their wee bit wings wi’ micht.

11   4.  intr. To produce a current of air by waving something to and fro. Also trans., to direct a current of air against, to fan.

12 1688.  R. Holme, Armoury, III. 91/1. [Among goldsmiths and jewellers] Waffing is clearing the Stones from Dust with a Pencill.

13 a. 1878.  H. Ainslie, Pilgr. Land of Burns (1892), 190. Waffing her wan face wi’ a claith.

14 1886.  J. Barrowman, Sc. Mining Terms, 69. To Waff, or Waft, to fan out. Firedamp was formerly expelled from the working rooms by waffing.

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