Wisp

Noun

 * 1) A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; any slender, flexible structure or group.
 * A wisp of smoke rose from the candle for a few moments after he blew it out.
 * A wisp of hair escaped her barette and whipped wildly in the wind.

Adjectives for Wisp
stringy; dewy; lazy.

Thesaurus
autoluminescence, bantam, banty, batch, bioluminescence, bunch, button, cathode luminescence, chemicoluminescence, chemiluminescence, chit, clump, cluster, copse, corposant, crop, crystalloluminescence, diminutive, double corposant, electroluminescence, fata morgana, featherweight, fingerling, fluorescence, fox fire, group, grouping, groupment, grove, hassock, ignis fatuus, knot, lightweight, lot, luciferase, luciferin, luminescence, luminophor, marshfire, mess, mini, minikin, minnow, minny, mouse, noctiluscence, nubbin, peewee, phosphor, phosphorescence, photoluminescence, pony, radioluminescence, runt, shock, shrimp, slew, slip, small fry, snip, snippet, stook, thermoluminescence, thicket, tit, tribofluorescence, triboluminescence, tribophosphorescence, tuft, tussock, wart, witch fire

Etymology

 * akin to / wispel: 'measure of grain', Norwegian bokmål/Swedish/Bornholm Danish visp: 'handful or bundle of grass, hay, etc'.

Translations

 * Dutch: sliert
 * French: brin, fétu , touffe
 * Mandarin:, ,


 * Portuguese: tufo
 * Romanian: şuviţă, şuviţe
 * Spanish: brizna, mechón , voluta , jirón