Usually means: Blow lightly; flutter or vacillate.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word whiffle:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. whiffle: Merriam-Webster
  2. whiffle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. whiffle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. whiffle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Whiffle, whiffle: Wordnik
  6. whiffle: Wiktionary
  7. whiffle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. whiffle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. whiffle: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. whiffle: Dictionary.com
  11. whiffle (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Whiffle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. whiffle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Whiffle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. whiffle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. whiffle: FreeDictionary.org
  17. whiffle: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. whiffle, whiffle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Whiffle: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See whiffled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (whiffle)

noun:  A short blow or gust.
noun:  (Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine) A male haircut done with electric clippers.
noun:  (obsolete) Something small or insignificant; a trifle.
noun:  (obsolete) A fife or small flute.
verb:  To blow a short gust.
verb:  To waffle, talk aimlessly.
verb:  (UK) To waste time.
verb:  To travel quickly with an accompanying wind-like sound; whizz, whistle along.
verb:  (ornithology, 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.
verb:  (intransitive) To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about.
verb:  (transitive) To wave or shake quickly; to cause to whiffle.
verb:  To change from one opinion or course to another; to use evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle.
verb:  To disperse with, or as with, a whiff, or puff; to scatter.

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