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Whiffet. World English Historical Dictionary

Whiffet. 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. Whiffet U.S. Also whiffit, wiffet. [? f. WHIFF sb.1 + -ET.]

1   1.  (Also whiffet dog.) A small dog.

2 1801.  Olio (Philad.), 41 (Thornton). Who heeds the Whiffit’s bark, when tempests howl?

3 1879.  J. Burroughs, Locusts & Wild Honey, 30. The king-bird will worry the hawk as a whiffet dog will worry a bear.

4   2.  transf. An insignificant person; a whippersnapper. colloq. (Cf. WHIFLING.)

5 1839.  Congress. Globe, Jan., App. 105/3. There was not a Whig whiffet in the country but could ask [etc.].

6 1876.  Whitman, Specimen Days, 1 Sept., Writ. 1902, IV. 157. This gusty-temper’d little whiffet, man.

7 1883.  L. A. Lambert, Notes on Ingersoll, xxii. 200. We hold ourselves responsible to him, and to all the glib little whiffets of his shallow school.

8   ¶  The sense ‘a little whiff or puff’ given in Webster 1864 is not authenticated.

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