释义 |
whiff1 /(h)wif/ noun- A faint or brief smell, often an unpleasant one
- A sudden puff of air or smoke from the mouth
- A slight inhalation
- A slight blast
- A small amount, esp of something causing or associated with a transient sensation
- A slight trace or suggestion
- A discharge of shot
- A cigarette (slang)
- A small cigar
- A jiffy (informal)
- A failure to hit the ball, etc (US)
- A light kind of outrigger boat
- A small signal flag (nautical)
- A glimpse (dialect)
transitive verb- To throw out in whiffs
- To puff
- To drive or convey by, or as if by, a whiff
- To inhale, smell
intransitive verb- To go out or off in a whiff
- To move with, or as if with, a puff of air
- To blow slightly
- To aim at, and fail to hit, a ball, etc (US)
- To smell
ORIGIN: Prob partly ME weffe; imit whiffˈer noun whiffˈy adjective whiff2 /(h)wif/ noun A fish related to the turbot ORIGIN: Ety dubious whiff3 /(h)wif/ intransitive verb To fish with a hand line towed behind a boat ORIGIN: Perh whiff1 whiffˈing noun |