whiffet means A little or faint whiff or puff. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
From whiff + -et.
noun
- A little or faint whiff or puff.“Outside the asylum gates a brass band huffed and thumped with brazen sneezes, silver whiffets, thundering sonorities and a detonating drum, the descant hitched together by a fat woman in a Tyrolese hat and the Erlkönig's longcoat that flocked upon her hips as she squeezed and pulled a Polish accordion as big as a sheep, dipping her knees on the saltarelli and rolling her eyes in a clown's gloat.”