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(transitive) To brush or dress, as with a wisp. / (UK, dialect, obsolete) To rumple. / (intransitive) To produce a wisp, as of smoke. / (transitive) To emit in wisps.

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Source Word

wisp

IPA(Pronunciation)

/wɪsp/

Verb

transitive UK dialectal obsolete intransitive

(transitive) To brush or dress, as with a wisp. / (UK, dialect, obsolete) To rumple. / (intransitive) To produce a wisp, as of smoke. / (transitive) To emit in wisps.

Japanese Meaning

（他動詞）軽く撫でる、またはさっと整える（たとえば、風合いを出すために軽くブラッシングするような意味合い） / （英国方言、古語において）くしゃくしゃにする、乱す / （自動詞）煙などを細くもくもくと吐き出す / （他動詞）（煙などを）細い束、しわがれた状態で放つ

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Before shaping the dough, she will wisp the stray flour from her hands.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

生地を成形する前に、彼女は手に付いた余分な粉を小さな束でさっと払う。

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Sense（1）

(transitive) To brush or dress, as with a wisp.

The very same head of hair, wisp'd, and matted together, would make the most disagreeable figure.

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Sense（2）

(UK, dialect, obsolete) To rumple.

Sense（3）

(intransitive) To produce a wisp, as of smoke.

To Temple, sitting in the cottonseed-hulls and the corn-cobs, the sound was no louder than the striking of a match: a short, minor sound shutting down the scene, the instant, with a profound finality, completely isolating it, and she sat there, her legs straight before her, her hands limp and palm-up on her lap, looking at Popeye's tight back and the ridges of his coat across his shoulders as he leaned out the door, the pistol behind him, against his flank, wisping thinly along his leg.

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