[f. WHIFF sb.1 + -LE.]
† 1. Something light or insignificant; a trifle.
1680. H. More, Apocal. Apoc., 253. Such a childish trifle or sleight whiffle.
2. An act of whiffling; a slight blast of air; a veering round.
1842. in Gosse, Birds Jamaica (1847), 366. At first two or three whiffles make darkened tracks on the glassy waters.
1870. Miss Alcott, Good Wives, xxi. Amy keeps me pointing due west most of the time, with only an occasional whiffle round to the south.
1909. H. Begbie, Cage, x. The whiffle in the air grew more distinct.
