waff
/waf, wahf/US // wæf, wɑf //UK // (wæf, wɑːf) //
华夫,华夫饼干,华夫饼
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
Scot. and North England.
- : a puff or blast of air, wind, etc.
- : a brief view; glance.
Examples
"You are very much afraid of a waff of wind blowing on your cousin's name," I would cry.
Waffle, wof′l, n. a kind of batter-cake, baked over the fire in an iron utensil of hinged halves called a Waff′le-ī′ron.
He was that prood he was walkin' sae far back on his heels that a waff o' win' wad hae couped him, and whustlin' 'Dark Lochnagar.'
In Cumberland this apparition is known by the peasantry as a ‘swarth,’ and in Yorkshire by the name of a ‘waff.’
But the natives just call it a Wiff-Waff—on account of the way it waves its tail, swimming, I imagine.
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