Wait-a-while

Wait-a-while
Wait-a-while Wait"-a-while`, n. (a) One of the Australian wattle trees ({Acacia colletioides}), so called from the impenetrability of the thicket which it makes. (b) same as {Wait-a-bit}. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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