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
WISP (plural WISPs)
Acronym of wireless internet service provider. (wireless ISP)
• WiFi
• WiMax
• PWIs, WIPs
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.
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.
• 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
30 April 2025
(noun) important marine food and game fishes found in all tropical and temperate seas; some are at least partially endothermic and can thrive in colder waters
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
