WISP

wisp

(noun) a small tuft or lock; “wisps of hair”

wisp

(noun) a flock of snipe

wisp

(noun) a small bundle of straw or hay

wisp

(noun) a small person; “a mere wisp of a girl”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

WISP (plural WISPs)

Acronym of wireless internet service provider. (wireless ISP)

Coordinate terms

• WiFi

• WiMax

Anagrams

• PWIs, WIPs

Etymology

Noun

wisp (countable and uncountable, plural wisps)

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

A whisk, or small broom.

A will o' the wisp, or ignis fatuus.

An immeasurable, indefinable essence of life; soul.

(uncountable) A disease affecting the feet of cattle.

Verb

wisp (third-person singular simple present wisps, present participle wisping, simple past and past participle wisped)

To brush or dress, as with a wisp.

(UK, dialect) To rumple.

(intransitive) To produce a wisp, as of smoke.

Anagrams

• PWIs, WIPs

Source: Wiktionary


Wisp, n. Etym: [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.]

1. A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance. In a small basket, on a wisp of hay. Dryden.

2. A whisk, or small broom.

3. A Will-o'-the-wisp; an ignis fatuus. The wisp that flickers where no foot can tread. Tennyson.

Wisp, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wisped; p. pr. & vb. n. Wisping.]

1. To brush or dress, an with a wisp.

2. To rumple. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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