whiffle

noun

1. A short blow or gust

2. (obsolete) Something small or insignificant; a trifle.

3. (obsolete) A fife or small flute.

verb

1. to blow a short gust

2. to waffle, talk aimlessly

3. (Britain) to waste time

4. to travel quickly, whizz, whistle, with an accompanying wind-like sound

5. (ornithology, of a bird) to descending rapidly from a height once the decision to land has been made, involving fast side-slipping first one way and then the other

6. (intransitive) To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about.

7. (transitive) To wave or shake quickly; to cause to whiffle.

8. To change from one opinion or course to another; to use evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle.

9. To disperse with, or as with, a whiff, or puff; to scatter.