early 14c., "handful or bundle of hay, grass, etc.," used for burning or cleaning or as a cushion; perhaps from an unrecorded Old English word, cognate with Norwegian and Swedish visp "wisp," of unknown origin; sometimes said to be connected with whisk or with Middle Low German and Middle Dutch wispel "a measure of grain." Meaning "thin, filmy portion" first attested 1836.
例文
1. She 's just a little bitty wisp of a girl.
彼女はとてもか弱い女の子です。
2.A thin wisp of smoke straggled up through the trees.
軽い煙が林間をゆらゆらと立ち上る。
3.She smoothed away a wisp of hair from her eyes.
彼女は目の上の髪をかき分けた。/
4.A wisp of grey hair stuck out from under her hat.