whiffler

/hwif-ler, wif-/US // ˈʰwɪf lər, ˈwɪf- //UK // (ˈwɪflə) //

威夫勒,鞭炮

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a person who frequently shifts opinions, attitudes, interests, etc.
- : a person who is vacillating or evasive in an argument.

The ‘whiffler’ was the official sword-flourisher of the Corporation.
In any show he will be one, though he be but a whiffler or a torch-bearer, and bears down strangers with the story of his actions.
Superintendent Whiffler came over, by-and-by, to see his successor.
Mr. Whiffler sighs, ‘these children, Saunders, make one quite an old man.’
At length Mrs. Whiffler is heard to say, ‘Mr. Saunders, shall I give you some pudding?’