whiffle

v., -fled, -fling, -fles.

v.intr.

1. To move or think erratically; vacillate.
2. To blow in fitful gusts; puff: The wind whiffled through the trees.
3. To whistle lightly.

v.tr.
To blow, displace, or scatter with gusts of air.

[Perhaps frequentative of WHIFF.]

[origin obscure; cf. squiffy]  intoxicated, drunk  (whiffed in Wodehouse?)

mod. alcohol intoxicated.  Jed found himself a mite whiffled, but nobody else knew.

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