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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Whifflernoun
Etymology: from whiffle.
The beach
Pales in the flood with men, with wives and boys,
Whose shouts and claps out-voice the deep-mouth’d sea,
Which, like a mighty whiffler ’fore the king,
Seems to prepare his way. William Shakespeare, Henry V.Our fine young ladies retain in their service a great number of supernumerary and insignificant fellows, which they use like whifflers, and commonly call shoeing-horns. Spectator.
Every whiffler in a laced coat, who frequents the chocolate-house, shall talk of the constitution. Jonathan Swift.
Webster Dictionary
Whifflernoun
one who whiffles, or frequently changes his opinion or course; one who uses shifts and evasions in argument; hence, a trifler
Whifflernoun
one who plays on a whiffle; a fifer or piper
Whifflernoun
an officer who went before procession to clear the way by blowing a horn, or otherwise; hence, any person who marched at the head of a procession; a harbinger
Whifflernoun
the golden-eye
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of whiffler in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of whiffler in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
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