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A Will-oʹ-Wisp. A wad is a wisp, and John or Jack is a name for any inferior person unknown. (See Jack.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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