Any ray (marine fish with a flat body and wing-like fins) of the family Pristidae, having a snout that resembles a saw.
showful
showful
adj
(archaic) showy; gaudy
noun
Enough to fill a show.
showoff
showoff
noun
A person given to egotistically attempting to demonstrate prowess or ability.
twelfth
twelfth
adj
The ordinal form of the number twelve, describing a person or thing in position number 12 of a sequence.
noun
(music) An interval equal to an octave plus a fifth.
One of twelve equal parts of a whole.
washoff
washoff
noun
Material transferred by this process.
The process of material being washed off a surface, for example by rainfall.
wharfed
wharfed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of wharf
wharfie
wharfie
noun
(Australia, New Zealand, informal, colloquial) A wharf labourer or stevedore.
whereof
whereof
adv
(archaic) Of what.
(archaic) Of which.
conj
(archaic) With or by which.
(formal) Of what.
(formal) Of which.
(formal) Of whom.
whiffed
whiffed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of whiff
whiffen
whiffer
whiffer
noun
(informal) An inhaler (device for asthmatics).
whiffet
whiffet
noun
A little whiff or puff.
whiffle
whiffle
noun
(obsolete) A fife or small flute.
(obsolete) Something small or insignificant; a trifle.
A short blow or gust.
verb
(UK) To waste time.
(intransitive) To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about.
(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.
(transitive) To wave or shake quickly; to cause to whiffle.
To blow a short gust.
To change from one opinion or course to another; to use evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle.
To disperse with, or as with, a whiff, or puff; to scatter.
To travel quickly with an accompanying wind-like sound; whizz, whistle along.
To waffle, talk aimlessly.
whoofed
whoofed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of whoof
whuffle
whuffle
verb
(intransitive) To make a low snuffling or blowing sound.