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单词 whiffs
释义

whiff1 /(h)wif/

noun
  1. A faint or brief smell, often an unpleasant one
  2. A sudden puff of air or smoke from the mouth
  3. A slight inhalation
  4. A slight blast
  5. A small amount, esp of something causing or associated with a transient sensation
  6. A slight trace or suggestion
  7. A discharge of shot
  8. A cigarette (slang)
  9. A small cigar
  10. A jiffy (informal)
  11. A failure to hit the ball, etc (US)
  12. A light kind of outrigger boat
  13. A small signal flag (nautical)
  14. A glimpse (dialect)
transitive verb
  1. To throw out in whiffs
  2. To puff
  3. To drive or convey by, or as if by, a whiff
  4. To inhale, smell
intransitive verb
  1. To go out or off in a whiff
  2. To move with, or as if with, a puff of air
  3. To blow slightly
  4. To aim at, and fail to hit, a ball, etc (US)
  5. 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

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