noun

• (Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine) A male haircut done with electric clippers.
• (obsolete) Something small or insignificant; a trifle.
• (obsolete) A fife or small flute.

verb

• (UK) To waste time.
• (ornithology, of a bird) To descend rapidly from a height once the decision to land has been made, involving fast side-slipping first one way and then the other.
• (intransitive) To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about.
  "[S]ometimes it may happen that ſuch a Cloud may appear ſeveral Mornings and Evenings, and we may not feel the effects of it, or but very little; yet we always provide againſt it; for a North never comes without ſuch a foreboding Cloud. But if the VVinds also vvhiffle about to the South, with fair flattering VVeather, it never fails."
• (transitive) To wave or shake quickly; to cause to whiffle.