Whiffle

hwtf'l, v.i. to turn as if by whiffs or gusts of wind: to be fickle: to prevaricate- — Whiff'ler. [Freq. of Whiff Whig, hwig, «. the name (now almost superseded by ‘Liberal’) of one of the great English — political panics. adj. Whlg'gish adv. whiggishly —us. whlg'gism, Whig'gery, Whig principles. [Ong. a nickname of the peasantry in the south-west of Scotland perh. from Scot, whig, sour nnlk (see Whey}, their drink perh. front a word whtggam, which western drovers used m driving. The name was afterwards applied to the Covenanters, who belonged mostly to the south-west of Scotland finally given m 1670 to the popular parly which strove to exclude the Duke of York from the succe ion, because was a R. Catholic. —