Whiff

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A brief, passing odor carried in the air.
  • noun. A very small trace.
  • noun. An inhalation, as of air or smoke.
  • noun. A slight, gentle gust of air; a waft.
  • noun. A strikeout.
  • intransitive verb. To be carried in brief gusts; waft.
  • intransitive verb. To swing at and miss a ball or puck.
  • intransitive verb. To strike out. Used of a batter.
  • intransitive verb. To inhale through the nose; sniff.
  • intransitive verb. To strike out (a batter).
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To puff; blow; produce or emit a puff or whiff.
  • To drink.
  • To puff; puff out; exhale; blow: as, to whiff out rings of smoke.
  • To carry as by a slight blast or whiff of wind.
  • To draw in; imbibe; inhale: said of air or smoke, and frequently of liquids also.
  • noun. A slight blast or gust of air; especially, a puff of air conveying some smell.
  • noun. A quick inhalation of air, and especially of smoke; a drawing or drinking; in of smoke; also, a draught or drink, as of wine or liquid.
  • noun. A sudden expulsion of air, smoke, or the like from the mouth; a puff.
  • noun. A hasty view; a glimpse; a gliff.
  • noun. At Oxford and other places on the Thames, a light kind of outrigger boat.
  • noun. An anacanthine or malacopterygious fish of the family Pleuronectidæ, a kind of flatfish or flounder, the Cynicoglossus microcephalus, found in British waters; the smear-dab, sail-fluke, or marysole.
  • To fish, as for mackerel, with a hand-line. See whiffing, n.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To throw out in whiffs; to consume in whiffs; to puff.
  • transitive verb. To carry or convey by a whiff, or as by a whiff; to puff or blow away.
  • noun. A sudden expulsion of air from the mouth; a quick puff or slight gust, as of air or smoke.
  • noun. A glimpse; a hasty view.
  • noun. The marysole, or sail fluke.
  • intransitive verb. To emit whiffs, as of smoke; to puff.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A waft; a brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air
  • noun. An odour carried briefly through the air
  • noun. A short inhalation of breath, especially of smoke from a cigarette or pipe
  • noun. a slight sign of something
  • noun. A strike (from the batter’s perspective)
  • noun. The megrim, a fish with scientific name Lepidorhombus boscii or Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis
  • verb. To waft.
  • verb. To sniff.
  • verb. To strike out.
  • verb. to attempt to strike and miss, especially being off-balance/vulnerable after missing.
  • adjective. Having a strong or unpleasant odor.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. smoke and exhale strongly
  • verb. drive or carry as if by a puff of air
  • verb. perceive by inhaling through the nose
  • noun. a short light gust of air
  • noun. a strikeout resulting from the batter swinging at and missing the ball for the third strike
  • verb. strike out by swinging and missing the pitch charged as the third
  • verb. utter with a puff of air
  • noun. a lefteye flounder found in coastal waters from New England to Brazil