He even had his fling at their laugh: "Few are able to laugh what can be called laughing, but only sniff and titter from the throat outward, or at best produce some Whiffling husky cachinnations as if they were laughing through wool.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
Accordingly, she had not courage to walk through the hall, with its lustres, purely because a whistling, Whiffling Cap-and-feather was gesturing up and down in it.
"The Campaner Thal and Other Writings"
Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
A convulsive squeeze and creaking, Whiffling sounds heralded a fresh outburst.
"Beyond"
John Galsworthy