whimple

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English

Etymology

Compare whiffle.

Verb

whimple (third-person singular simple present whimples, present participle whimpling, simple past and past participle whimpled)

  1. To whiffle; to veer.
  2. Archaic form of wimple.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: ">…] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      Yet she much whiter ; but the same did hide
      Under a vele , that whimpled was full low
    • 1879, Richard Francis Burton, The Land of Midian:
      Every morning I used to awake surprised by the song of the Naiad, the little runnel whimpling down its bed of rushes, stone, and sand; and the response of the palms making music in the land-breeze.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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