waftyadj.
/ˈwɑːfti//ˈwafti//ˈwɒfti/ΚΠ
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Vapide, waftie, or wafted; that sends vp an ill fume, that yeelds a stinking vapor.
2. Of the wind: That wafts a perfume.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [adjective] > relating to action of wind-currents > driving
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a1874 S. T. Dobell Poet. Wks. (1875) II. 333 Oh, old old Minstrelsy, oh, wafty winds of Romaunt, Blow me your harps.
3. That wafts or moves to and fro in the wind.Apparently an isolated use.
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1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 282 The wafty sycamore, the Lebanonian cedar, the exalted planetree.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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