Any ray (marine fish with a flat body and wing-like fins) of the family Pristidae, having a snout that resembles a saw.
wharfie
wharfie
noun
(Australia, New Zealand, informal, colloquial) A wharf labourer or stevedore.
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.