Wisping

noun
1.
a handful or small bundle of straw, hay, or the like.
2.
any thin tuft, lock, mass, etc.:
wisps of hair.
3.
a thin puff or streak, as of smoke; slender trace.
4.
a person or thing that is small, delicate, or barely discernible:
a mere wisp of a lad; a wisp of a frown.
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)
8.
to twist into a wisp.
noun
1.
a thin, light, delicate, or fibrous piece or strand, such as a streak of smoke or a lock of hair
2.
a small bundle, as of hay or straw
3.
anything slender and delicate: a wisp of a girl
4.
a mere suggestion or hint
5.
a flock of birds, esp snipe
verb
6.
(intransitive) often foll by away. to move or act like a wisp
7.
(transitive) (mainly Brit, dialect) to twist into a wisp
8.
(transitive) (mainly Brit) to groom (a horse) with a wisp of straw, etc
noun acronym
1.
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