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Word: whiff (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • colloquial Having a strong or unpleasant odor.

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Noun:

  • An odour carried briefly through the air
  • A short inhalation of breath, especially of smoke from a cigarette or pipe
  • A waft; a brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air
  • baseball A strike (from the batter's perspective)
  • The megrim, a fish with scientific name ''Lepidorhombus boscii'' or ''Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis''

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Verb:

  • intransitive|baseball To strike out.
  • (slang) to attempt to strike and miss, esp. being off-balance/vulnerable after missing.
  • transitive To sniff.
  • transitive To waft.

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