Crossword clues for wispy
wispy
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1717, from wisp + -y (2). Related: Wispiness.
Wiktionary
a. Consisting of or resembling a wisp; like a slender, flexible strand or bundle.
WordNet
adj. thin and weak; "a wispy little fellow with small hands and feet"- Edmund Wilson [syn: wisplike]
lacking clarity or distinctness; "a dim figure in the distance"; "only a faint recollection"; "shadowy figures in the gloom"; "saw a vague outline of a building through the fog"; "a few wispy memories of childhood" [syn: dim, faint, shadowy, vague]
Usage examples of "wispy".
Outside stood a tiny, wispy lady of late middle years, wearing a quilted sacque of plum-coloured satin which would have been the height of alamodality some thirty years ago.
The voluminous folds of her white gowns were tucked around and behind her, the purity and newness of the starched linen fabric contrasting sharply with the rough, papery skin and wispy strands of hair it enframed and enveloped.
Wispy white hair escaped from a white lacy cap, while a white shawl was draped haphazardly over a jaconet gown, also of white.
One fingernail lengthened to slit through the thin lace of her bra, freeing her full breasts from the wispy confines.
I had met, Lidia and Rosa, two wispy, pixie-like, charming young women.
The batlike Pipistrelles and the wispy lattice webs of the Gossameres, residents of deep space, were only found light-years away from fierce stellar radiation.
Eyeing me, Trent adjusted his gray linen suit and smoothed his wispy hair as if daring me to say anything.
Short and round-faced, with longish, wispy white hair and neutral gray eyes set off by old-fashioned tortoiseshell, round-framed spectacles, Hoskinson presented a lot more of Bob Cratchit than he did James Bond.
It was always misty in these mountains, for at night the warm wind rose from the lowveld and wispy clouds wreathed the tall peak.
There had been a ribald joke passed around when Boone Markland married wispy little Annie Lou Breen.
While Merlion and Embeth had both dressed their hair on top of their heads, Faraday had left hers in the long braid, wispy tendrils brushing her cheeks.
The patroller brushed back his wispy strawberry blond hair and offered another gap-toothed smile.
So long as the wispy aerial plankton that fed him continued to drift up from the lands below, he prowled his thin niche untroubled.
And she said something else as well, something low and wispy that the staver did not catch, that brushed against his mind and was immediately forgotten.
Wispy strands of darker gas soiled about an invisible magnetic field which arched over a sunspot almost a thousand kilometers below.