whiff

A brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air; a waft.

Đồng nghĩa: puff

A short inhalation or exhalation of breath, especially when accompanied by smoke from a cigarette or pipe.

An odour (usually unpleasant) carried briefly through the air.

Đồng nghĩa: sniff

A small quantity of cloud, smoke, vapour, etc.; specifically (obsolete), chiefly in take the whiff: a puff of tobacco smoke.

Đồng nghĩa: puff

A flag used as a signal.

Đồng nghĩa: waff, waif, wheft

Any of a number of flatfish such as (dated) the lemon sole (Microstomus kitt) and now, especially, the megrim (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis) and (with a descriptive word) a species of large-tooth flounder or sand flounder (family Paralichthyidae).

(figuratively)A slight sign of something; a burst, a glimpse, a hint.

(figuratively)A slight attack or touch.

(figuratively)A characteristic quality of something; a flavour, a savour, a taste.

(figuratively)A sound like that of air passing through a small opening; a short or soft whistle.

(US, figuratively, slang)A failure to hit a ball in various sports (for example, golf); a miss.

(archaic)An expulsion of explosive or shot.

(nautical) An outrigged boat for one person propelled by oar.

(obsolete)A sip of an alcoholic beverage.

(transitive)To carry or convey (something) by, or as by, a whiff or puff of air; to blow, puff, or waft away.

(transitive)To say (something) with an exhalation of breath.

(transitive)To inhale or exhale (smoke from tobacco, etc.) from a cigarette, pipe, or other smoking implement; to smoke (a cigarette, pipe, etc.); to puff.

(transitive)To breathe in or sniff (an odour); to smell.

(archaic, dated, slang, transitive)To shoot (someone) with a firearm; hence, to assassinate or kill (someone).

(US, slang, transitive)Of a pitcher: to strike out (a batter); to fan.

(obsolete, transitive)To consume (an alcoholic beverage).

(intransitive)To move in a way that causes a light gust of air, or a whistling sound.

(intransitive)To be carried, or move as if carried, by a puff of air; to waft.

(intransitive)To smoke a cigarette, pipe, or other smoking implement.

(intransitive)To smell; to sniff.

(intransitive, slang)To give off or have an unpleasant smell; to stink.

(US, intransitive, slang)Especially in baseball or golf: to completely miss hitting a ball; hence (baseball), of a batter: to strike out; to fan.

(broadly, intransitive, slang)To fail spectacularly.

(intransitive, slang)In fighting games, to execute a move that fails to hit the opponent.

(intransitive)To catch fish by dragging a handline near the surface of the water from a moving boat.

(informal)Having a strong or unpleasant odour.

Đồng nghĩa: stinking, whiffy, bad, buckish, cacodorous, fetid, foul-smelling, funky, graveolent, malodorous, mawkish, niffy, noisome, nonaromatic, nonfragrant, olid, on the nose, pongy, putredinous, reeking, reeky, ripe, smelly, stank, stenchy, stinking, stinksome, stinky, unaromatic, unfragrant, whiff, whiffy

Used to indicate a sound like that of air passing through a small opening, that is, a short or soft whistle.