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Feb. 10, 2017
whiffler\HWIF-ler, WIF-\noun
1. a person who frequently shifts opinions, attitudes, interests, etc.
2. a person who is vacillating or evasive in an argument.
QuotesAy, ay; he's a whiffler, but a good man on a sea-elephant.
-- James Fenimore Cooper, The Sea Lions; or, The Lost Sealers, 1849
Origin of whifflerWhiffler has a sense that is now sadly obsolete,
one who smokes tobacco, dating from the early 17th century. Its
current sense dates from the mid-17th century.More From
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