I. ˈwimpəl noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English wimpel, from Old English; akin to Old Saxon wimpal veil, banner, Middle Dutch wimpel veil, banner, wimple, Old English wīpian to wipe — more at wipe
1. : a cloth covering for the neck and the sides of the face that is pinned to the hair, a band, or a hat and worn especially by women in the late medieval period and by nuns
2. Scotland
a. : a crafty turn : twist
b. : curve , bend
3. Britain : ripple
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II. verb
( wimpled ; wimpled ; wimpling -p(ə)liŋ ; wimples )
Etymology: Middle English wimplen, from wimpel, n.
transitive verb
1. : to cover with or as if with a wimple : veil , wrap
2. : to cause to ripple
a warm south wind wimpled her fields of golden grain — Cy Warman
intransitive verb
1. : to fall or lie in folds
2. chiefly Scotland : to follow a curving course (as of a stream) : meander , twist , wind
3. : ripple
over the little brook which wimpled along below towered an arch — J.R.Lowell
a third voice came wimpling and warbling — Virginia Woolf