What does WISP mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. wispnoun

    a small tuft or lock

    "wisps of hair"

  2. wispnoun

    a small person

    "a mere wisp of a girl"

  3. wispnoun

    a small bundle of straw or hay

  4. wispnoun

    a flock of snipe

Wiktionary

  1. wispnoun

    A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; any slender, flexible structure or group.

  2. Etymology: ; akin to / wispel 'measure of grain', Norwegian bokmål/Swedish/Bornholm Danish visp 'handful or bundle of grass, hay, etc'.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Wispnoun

    A small bundle, as of hay or straw.

    Etymology: wisp, Swedish, and old Dutch.

    A gentleman would fast five days, without meat, bread, or drink; but the same used to have continually a great wisp of herbs that he smelled on: and amongst those, some esculent herbs of strong scent, as onions. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist.

    Jews, who their whole wealth can lay
    In a small basket, on a wisp of hay. Dryden.

ChatGPT

  1. wisp

    A wisp is a small, thin, or faint trace or amount of something, typically something abstract like a characteristic or quality. It can also refer to a thin or fleeting element in the physical world, such as a small puff or strand of smoke, a thin streak of cloud, or a frail or slender person. The term is also used to refer to a small bundle of straw or hair.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Wispnoun

    a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance

  2. Wispnoun

    a whisk, or small broom

  3. Wispnoun

    a Will-o'-the-wisp; an ignis fatuus

  4. Wispverb

    to brush or dress, an with a wisp

  5. Wispverb

    to rumple

  6. Etymology: [OE. wisp, wips; probably akin to D. & G. wisch, Icel. visk, and perhaps to L. virga a twig, rod. Cf. Verge a rod, Whisk, n.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Wisp

    wisp, n. a small bundle of straw or hay: a small broom: will-o'-the-wisp: a disease affecting the feet of cattle.—v.t. to rub down with a wisp.—adj. Wis′py, like a wisp. [M. E. wisp, wips, conn. with wipe; cf. Low Ger. wiep, Norw. vippa, a wisp.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of WISP in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of WISP in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of WISP in a Sentence

  1. Vincent Van Gogh:

    One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way.

  2. Vincent Van Gogh:

    There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

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