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==English== |
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===Etymology=== |
===Etymology=== |
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Compare {{ |
Compare {{m|en|whiffle}}. |
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===Verb=== |
===Verb=== |
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# To [[whiffle]]; to [[veer]]. |
# To [[whiffle]]; to [[veer]]. |
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#* {{RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene|1|1|passage=Yet she much whiter ; but the same did hide <br>Under a vele , that '''whimpled''' was full low}} |
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{{Webster 1913}} |
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Latest revision as of 11:40, 28 April 2023
See also: Whimple
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compare whiffle.
Verb
[edit]whimple (third-person singular simple present whimples, present participle whimpling, simple past and past participle whimpled)
- To whiffle; to veer.
- Archaic form of wimple.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Yet she much whiter ; but the same did hide
Under a vele , that whimpled was full low
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)