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whiffer

noun

Etymology

From whiff + -er.

  1. inherited from wefan — “to weave”
  2. inherited from *webʰ-✻ — “to braid, weave”
  3. inherited from wafian — “to wave”
  4. inherited from wef
  5. suffixed as whiffer — “whiff + er”

Definitions

  1. An inhaler (device for asthmatics).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for whiffer. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA