whimple
English
Etymology
Compare whiffle.
Verb
whimple (third-person singular simple present whimples, present participle whimpling, simple past and past participle whimpled)
- To whiffle; to veer.
- Alternative form of wimple
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)