(now rare) A fancy, a whim, a caprice. [from 16th c.]
(plural) Any of various diseases of animals, especially horses, marked by a disturbance of equilibrium and abnormal gait and behaviour such as staggers or a sudden vertigo, sometimes followed by unconsciousness; the staggers. [from 17th c.]
Noun
A type of European deep water flatfish, Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis; the whiff or sail-fluke.