waff

[ waf, wahf ]

/ wæf, wɑf /

a puff or blast of air, wind, etc.

a brief view; glance.

Origin of waff

1590–1600; derivative of dial. waff to wave

"You are very much afraid of a waff of wind blowing on your cousin's name," I would cry.

John Splendid |Neil Munro
In Cumberland this apparition is known by the peasantry as a ‘swarth,’ and in Yorkshire by the name of a ‘waff.’

The Ghost World |T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton) Dyer
Waffle, wof′l, n. a kind of batter-cake, baked over the fire in an iron utensil of hinged halves called a Waff′le-ī′ron.

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) |Various
A sudden affection, producing a bodily ailment; as a waff of cauld, S. 6.

An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language |John Jamieson

He was that prood he was walkin' sae far back on his heels that a waff o' win' wad hae couped him, and whustlin' 'Dark Lochnagar.'

Erchie |(AKA Hugh Foulis) Neil Munro

waff

/ (wæf, wɑːf) /

a gust or puff of air

a glance; glimpse

to flutter or cause to flutter

C16: Scottish and northern English variant of wave