wispy

adj 1: thin and weak; "a wispy little fellow with small hands and

feet"- Edmund Wilson [syn: {wisplike}]

2: lacking clarity or distinctness; "a dim figure in the

distance"; "only a faint recollection"; "shadowy figures

in the gloom"; "saw a vague outline of a building through

the fog"; "a few wispy memories of childhood" [syn: {dim},

{faint}, {shadowy}, {vague}]

Wisp

["An Experiment with a Self-Compiling Compiler for a Simple

List-Processing Language", M.V. Wilkes, Ann Rev Automatic

Programming 4:1-48. (1964)].