[ US /ˈhwɪf, ˈwɪf/ ]
[ UK /wˈɪf/ ]
NOUN
  1. a short light gust 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
  1. perceive by inhaling through the nose
    sniff the perfume
  2. utter with a puff of air
    whiff out a prayer
  3. drive or carry as if by a puff of air
    The gust of air whiffed away the clouds
  4. smoke and exhale strongly
    whiff a pipe
    puff a cigar
  5. strike out by swinging and missing the pitch charged as the third
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How To Use whiff In A Sentence

  • Several other recent transfers have been accompanied by a strong whiff of controversy.
  • The servants disappeared as if they were whiffs of smoke blown away by the wind.
  • So avoiding the whiff of scandal enveloping me back home, let me introduce you to the rest of my competitors.
  • Over the course of the year, he's almost hit on the head by a sparrowhawk, gets a whiff of "bad badger breath" when three cubs cannon into his lap, and watches two stoats massacre a screaming leveret, their normally creamy bibs "the colour of a slaughterman's apron". A Year in the Woods: The Diary of a Forest Ranger by Colin Elford
  • Most would agree that the spuds would carry the faint whiff of moral complicity. Times, Sunday Times
  • I knew I caught a whiff of something flammable in the office air Friday afternoon when a cacophony of squawking arose from a neighboring borough of Cubeville.
  • There's a distinct whiff of anthropological research in the respectful view of men in pubs and stoking furnaces. Times, Sunday Times
  • In Liverpool there is a sulphurous whiff of rebellion - bitter talk, alarming to some, of direct action.
  • During shooting there was all occasional whiff of smoke at the rear of the cylinder and examination of the fired cases found them covered with soot from end to end.
  • I leaned over him and caught a whiff of his subtle cologne.
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