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Whiff   /wɪf/  /hwɪf/   Listen
Whiff

noun
1.
A short light gust of air.  Synonyms: puff, puff of air.
2.
A lefteye flounder found in coastal waters from New England to Brazil.
3.
A strikeout resulting from the batter swinging at and missing the ball for the third strike.
verb
(past & past part. whiffed; pres. part. whiffing)
1.
Perceive by inhaling through the nose.  Synonym: sniff.
2.
Drive or carry as if by a puff of air.
3.
Strike out by swinging and missing the pitch charged as the third.
4.
Smoke and exhale strongly.  Synonym: puff.  "Whiff a pipe"
5.
Utter with a puff of air.



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"Whiff" Quotes from Famous Books



... year there blooms a large clump of milkweed (Asclepias cornuta), and, what with the fragrance of its purple pompons and the murmurous music of its bees, its fortnight of bloom is not permitted to be forgotten for a moment. Only a moment ago a whiff of more than usual redolence from the open window at which I am sitting reminded me that the flowers were even now in the heyday of their prime, and the loud droning music betokened that the bees were making the most ...
— My Studio Neighbors • William Hamilton Gibson
... smoking turf of the other side. I gulped a great breath of the fresh air into my suffocating lungs, tore the buckskin covering from my broncho's head and we raced on in a swirl of smoke, always following the dust which revealed the tracks of the retreating Sioux. There was a whiff of singed hair, as if one of the horses had been burnt, and Little Fellow gave a shout. Looking back I saw his horse sinking on the blackened patch; but La Robe Noire and I rode on. The fugitives were ascending rising ground to the ...
— Lords of the North • A. C. Laut
... 'Giles, do you think it would hurt me to have a drive to-morrow? I am so tired of these two rooms. A drive alone with Ursula would be delicious. We could go down the Redstone lanes towards Pemberley: one always has a whiff of sea-air there ...
— Uncle Max • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... description swept over northern Manchuria. It was so terrible and fatal that when one was stricken there was but little hope for recovery. It was so contagious that when one member of a family took it, generally the entire family perished, as simply a whiff of the breath of one stricken was sufficient to give it to another. The government made every effort to cope with the situation but the difficulties were tremendous and the scourge spread like a prairie fire. More than forty-two ...
— Birdseye Views of Far Lands • James T. Nichols
... extracted one, closed the package, and tossed it back. A moment later the little chap had lighted the cigarette, and, as he deposited himself at full length on a tiger-skin rug, he puffed out a great whiff ...
— Frank Merriwell's Races • Burt L. Standish


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