wisp

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

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

Verb

1. (transitive) To brush or dress, as with a wisp.
2. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) To rumple.
3. (intransitive) To produce a wisp, as of smoke.
4. (transitive) To emit in wisps.

Conceptos

mechón

🔒

voluta

jirón

brizna

ristra

🪢

bandada de agachadizas

retaco

bola

hacecillo

manojo

ovillo

trocito

Sinónimos

tuft

bunch

bundle

scrap

tussock

shred

sheaf

faggot

fagot

fascicle

fine

flash

forelock

handful

light

little

lock

🔒

lowercase

minor

pack

packet

panache

patch

piece

pompon

puff

small

small-scale

smithereens

splash

spray

sprig

strand

swad

tassel

tiny

toothpick

twist

whisk

wreath

little piece

a lock of hair

small bundle

ball

bright wisp

beam

bind

brush

crest

dossier

Traducciones

Haarbüschel

touffe

tutam

Strohbündel

άχυρο

Wisch

bağlam

sliert

deste

fétu

brin

manciata

tufo

Bündel

σανός

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/wɪsp/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: wispe

Heredado de inglés antiguo: *wisp

Cognado con frisón occidental: wisp

Cognado con neerlandés: wisp

Cognado con neerlandés medio: -

Cognado con Middle Low German: wispel

In summary

From Middle English wispe, wyspe, wips, wipse, perhaps from an unrecorded Old English *wisp, *wips. Cognate with West Frisian wisp, Dutch wisp (“bundle of hay or straw”), Norwegian bokmål/Swedish/Bornholm Danish visp (“handful or bundle of grass, hay, etc.”). Akin also to Middle Dutch/Middle Low German wispel (“measure of grain”).