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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. 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

  1. Whifflernoun

    one who whiffles, or frequently changes his opinion or course; one who uses shifts and evasions in argument; hence, a trifler

  2. Whifflernoun

    one who plays on a whiffle; a fifer or piper

  3. 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

  4. Whifflernoun

    the golden-eye

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of whiffler in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of whiffler in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6


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