Whimple

MsPhD, plus a slew of other folks who regularly comment on the posts, such as whimple, who don't appear to have their own blogs. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And his character as a sportsman being now well established, he sometimes permitted himself, even when the game was afoot, to loiter in the vicinity of the path on which he could at least mark the flutter of the gray whimple of Anne of Geierstein, and the outline of the form which it shrouded. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Also, apparently there are varous old old English spellings of the wimple, as whimpel, whimpel and whimple! ❋ Unknown (2007)

As for when I found the time to ask people if they knew what a wimple/whimpel/whimple was - it was a quick comment over over a drink at lunchtime. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And it's wimple, not whimple, and it was a standard piece of female headgear in the middle ages, so is not analagous to a hairshirt. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Wrinkled/Verity - She might be refreshingly unPC (and that may be her one redeeming feature), but she still believes in public floggings, making the whimple compulsory, and that the Church should control social policy (that's the Catholic Church by the way - not cuddly liberal Anglicans). ❋ Unknown (2007)

The whole point of my comment about 'whimple, wimple, wimpel etc, is that there was no defined agreed spelling of it or any other word in old English! ❋ Unknown (2007)

Looking round, there was the old dame down upon the roadway, with her red whimple flying on the breeze, while the two rogues, black and white, stooped over her, wresting away from her the penny and such other poor trifles as were worth the taking. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1902)

The burgher glanced back at their fierce faces and quickened his step, while the girl pulled her whimple closer round her, for there was a meaning in their wild eyes, as they stared at the purse and the maiden, which men of all tongues could understand. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1902)

Behind him his serving wench, her blue whimple over her head, and one hand thrust forth to bear the lanthorn which threw a golden bar of light along her master's path. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1902)

By the side of the track the old dame was standing, fastening her red whimple once more round her head. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1902)

Pasques Dieu! they are made to be loved, les petites, from whimple down to shoe-string! ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1902)

Hey Dave, will you throw on some [whimple whomple]? I'd love to here the new [Datsik] [remix]! ❋ Isallthatglitters (2010)

“Wow, [look at] [Mr] Stimple-van-Whimple [over there]!” ❋ Big SHaq The Third (2019)