Gratis ordbok - engelska svenska tyska lexikon

Definitioner

Substantiv

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. (British) 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.