wisp
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Is wisp a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of wisp?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (archaic) A flock of snipe.Examples: "They shift their quarters in the early part of the season very suddenly, and if a man hears of a wisp of snipe in any particular place, he must be off at once."; "A flock of snipe is given the collective name of a "wisp", perhaps due to its rapid twisting and turning before the birds drop down again."archaiccountableuncountable
2. (uncountable) A disease affecting the feet of cattle.uncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To brush or dress, as with a wisp.Examples: "The very same head of hair, wisp'd, and matted together, would make the most disagreeable figure."transitive
2. (UK, dialect, obsolete) To rumple.UKdialectalobsolete
3. (intransitive) To produce a wisp, as of smoke.Examples: "To Temple, sitting in the cottonseed-hulls and the corn-cobs, the sound was no louder than the striking of a match: a short, minor sound shutting down the scene, the instant, with a profound finality, completely isolating it, and she sat there, her legs straight before her, her hands limp and palm-up on her lap, looking at Popeye's tight back and the ridges of his coat across his shoulders as he leaned out the door, the pistol behind him, against his flank, wisping thinly along his leg."intransitive
4. (transitive) To emit in wisps.Examples: "It looked warm and rosy-bright inside, with a little chimney wisping smoke, little windows glowing."transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary