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This is from the missing words list. I'll be honest, up until today I only knew the word 'barrufet' in the sense 'els Barrufets' (i.e. 'Smurfs'). However, I looked up 'barrufet' in DIEC2 and found:
1. diable
2. follet
The entry for 'follet' reads:
1. mal esperit, més aviat entremaliat i faceciós que malèfic, imaginat per la superstició popular, el qual suposadament habita certes cases, turmenta la gent durant el son, etc.
2. [ME] Ventada que arremolina la pols.
This would suggest the entry:
barrufet
noun (m)
1. devil
2. imp?
3. dust devil
I looked up 'barrufet' in the GDLC and found the entry 'barrufet del vent': Remolí de vent que s'emporta la pols enlaire. Based on this, I looked up 'barrufet del vent' via Google and found the following entry in a meteorological dictionary:
"Vent que, caragolant la pols, la puja a una certa altura. Aquesta definició, que el doctor Griera dóna de "barruflet de vent" i com collida a l'Espluga de Francolí, s'avé evidentment amb la del dust devil anglès: "remolí de vent, format per una forta convecció damunt un terreny arenós i sec, que s'emporta la pols en l'aire". Probablement en idèntic sentit es té l'accepció de follet que trobem en el mateix treball de Griera: "les ratxades de vent que arremolinen la pols en l'aire (Tremp)".
So I looked up 'dust devil' in Wikipedia and found this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_devil
I've never heard the term 'dust devil' before but it seems sound. According to the Wikipedia article, there are a number of other terms in America ('dancing devils' or 'sun devil' in the South West and 'sand augers' or 'dust whirls' in Death Valley. In Australia it would appear they're called 'willy willies' or 'whirly whirlies' which come from an aboriginal language and which I think are fantastic terms, particularly 'whirly whirly' (quite descriptive!)