whiffle

His father rejoined with some heat, "You're lucky to whiffle.

"Ern didn't want to whiffle," Dan said and they all confirmed this eagerly.

So I whiffle about this way and that, and sometimes think I am a most degenerate creature."

Sometimes to whiffle, a bird flies briefly with its body turned upside down but with its neck and head twisted 180 degrees around in a normal position.

"You'll whiffle and you'll dance and you'll go where you went and you'll hold your tongue and you'll do no more nor that.

What you done, Wednesday, was what you was meant to do: whiffle, dance, bit of larking with Mr. Ralph, wait your turn and dance again.