a handful or small bundle of straw, hay, or the like.

any thin tuft, lock, mass, etc.

wisps of hair.

a thin puff or streak, as of smoke; slender trace.

a person or thing that is small, delicate, or barely discernible

a mere wisp of a lad; a wisp of a frown.

a whisk broom.

Chiefly British Dialect .

a pad or twist of straw, as used to rub down a horse.

a twisted bit of straw used as a torch.

a will-o'-the-wisp or ignis fatuus.

to twist into a wisp.

noun

bit , lock , piece , shock , shred , snippet , string , thread , tuft , twist , band , broom , brush , bunch , bundle , clean , flock , fragment , frail , hint , indication , rumple , slight , strand , thin , trace , whisk