10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WHIFFLERY»
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whifflery in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
whifflery and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Sport and the Literary Imagination: Essays in History, ...
He was, and remained, a market trader, a dealer in tsatske - 'a toy or plaything, a
shmondrie, a bauble, a whifflery, a nothing' (14). He works the markets in the
Manchester area selling his nothings, a life dedicated to communicating
trivialities ...
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The Wordsworth Thesaurus: For Home, Office and Study
... minuscule, negligible, nugatory, paltry, petty, piddling, piffling, puny, shallow,
silly, slight, small, tiny, trivial, unimportant, valueless, worthless. n. desipience,
fiddling, fooling, frivolity, piddling, piffling, whifflery. trigger v. activate, actuate,
cause, ...
Wordsworth, William,
1993
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English Language Word Builder
... PHYLARCHY PULSATORY SCOUTHERY SINGSONGY SQUEAKERY
SUBLUNARY TRIUMVIRY WHIFFLERY ALLOPATHY ASSERTORY BUSINESSY
CINNAMONY CURSITORY EDUCATORY ETHNARCHY FOOTWEARY
HEADACHEY ...
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ...
or unsteady person ; whifflery (whiffling or whifflewhaffle) = levity, nonsense ;
whiffling, adj. = uncertain. 1607. Dekker,Northward Hoe, ii.i.Your rightwhiffler
indeed hangshimself inSt. Martin's,andnot in Cheapside. 167194. TiLLOTSON ...
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On the History and Use of the Suffixes -ery (-ry), -age, and ...
(1) Adopted Formations. (2) Native Formations. (c) Formations expressing the
Place, Produc of. warlockry 'condition or practice of a w.' (CD.). wastry '
wastefulness' (CD.). whifflery 'the habits of a w.' (CD. — Carlyle). whiggery '
Whiggism' (CD.
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English Words with Native Roots and with Greek, Latin, Or ...
... goosery, grazery, oldwifery, owlery, swinery, sloppery, swindlery, tagraggery,
thievery, whifflery; nothingize; drownage, floodage, proppage, wrappage,
wreckage; drudgical, gigmanical; oozelet, queenlet, squeaklet; plunderous;
dapperism, ...
George Albert Nicholson,
1916
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Analog Science Fiction/science Fact
... to wit: socage, burgage, lamap- dary, talliage and stallage; waftage and
scutage; stannary, figgery, whifflery and lairage, shall by these presents be
bound consequent to the constitutional prerogatives of the Acts of Engrossment
of 191 q c to ...
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Studien zur englischen Philologie
342, whifflery T. C. IlI. 60. — Bemerkt sei noch, dass es in. bureaucracy. Der
erstere Ausdruck, der nach dem Centur. Din-L von Southey uud seincn Freundeu
Coleridge uud Lovell stammt, kann ans dem Grunde nur wenig eingewirkt lmben,
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Film teacher. One-woman short films include A Bit of Whifflery (7 min.), Hercules (
7 min.), Time Out (7 min.), and Random Shapes Aloft (8 min.). BAKER,
LAURETTA, % Youth Film Distribution Center, 43 W. 16th St., New York, N. Y.
10011.
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: Stra to Z
Hence WHIFFL£R = a trifler, a fickle or unsteady person ; WHIFFLERY (
WHIFFLING or WHIFFLE- whaffle) = levity, nonsense ; whiffling, adj. = uncertain.
1607. Dekker, Northward Hoe, ii, 1. Your right whiffles indeed hangs himself in St.
Martin ...
John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley,
1904