Definitions for wisp

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IPA: /wɪsp/

Wisp is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in wisp (ipsw).

Definitions for wisp

noun

1. a handful or small bundle of straw, hay, or the like.
2. any thin tuft, lock, mass, etc.:
3. a thin puff or streak, as of smoke; slender trace.
4. a person or thing that is small, delicate, or barely discernible:
5. a whisk broom.
6. Chiefly British Dialect. a pad or twist of straw, as used to rub down a horse. a twisted bit of straw used as a torch.
7. a will-o'-the-wisp or ignis fatuus.

verb (used with object)

1. to twist into a wisp.

Origin of wisp

1300-50; Middle English wisp, wips; akin to wipe

Examples for wisp

A man stood in the doorway, naked but for the wisp of skirt at his waist.

They had seen a wisp of smoke curling up from the tree tops.

The coals of the fire still smouldered and gave forth a wisp of smoke.

"Sure I'm only rowling a wisp of straw on my leg," replied Hosey.

A thin man with a wisp of a goatee beard, he struggles with a stutter to explain what happened to him that day.

Is that he with the wisp of hair hanging from his chin, in the long coat?

Good Indian twisted a wisp of mane in his fingers, and frowned abstractedly.

A wisp of her hair caressed his right ear, but somehow did not relax his temper.

The visitor, by its attraction, drew from the nebula a wisp of gas.

She withdrew her arm from his and struck him lightly with a wisp of hay.