Category:Whiff

Whiff, n. Etym: [oe. weffe vapor, whiff, probably of imitative Origin; cf. Dan. vift a puff, gust, w. chwiff a whiff, puff.]

1. A sudden expulsion of air from the mouth; a quick puff or slight Gust, as of air or smoke. But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword the unnerved father Falls. Shak. The skipper, he blew a whiff from his pipe, and a scornful laugh Laughed he. Longfellow.

2. A glimpse; a hasty view. [prov. Eng.]

3. (zoöl.)

Defn: the marysole, or sail fluke.

Whiff Whiff, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Whiffed; p. pr. & vb. n. Whiffing.]

1. To throw out in whiffs; to consume in whiffs; to puff.

2. To carry or convey by a whiff, or as by a whiff; to puff or blow Away. Old empedocles,. . . who, when he leaped into etna, having a dry, Sear body, and light, the smoke took him, and whiffed him up into the Moon. B. Jonson.

Whiff Whiff, v. i.

Defn: to emit whiffs, as of smoke; to puff.