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Definition wisp

Etymology

From Middle English wyspe. Cognate to Dutch wisp (“bundle of hay or straw”). Akin to Middle Dutch/Middle Low German wispel (“measure of grain”), Norwegian bokmål/Swedish/Bornholm Danish visp (“handful or bundle of grass, hay, etc.”).

Noun

wisp (countable and uncountable, plural wisps)

1. A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; any slender, flexible structure or group.
2. A whisk, or small broom.
3. A will o' the wisp, or ignis fatuus.
4. An immeasurable, indefinable essence of life; soul.
5. (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)

1. To brush or dress, as with a wisp.
2. (Britain, dialectal) To rumple.
3. (intransitive) To produce a wisp, as of smoke.

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