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noun
1.
a slight gust or puff of wind, air, vapor, smoke, or the like: a whiff of fresh air.
2.
a slight trace of odor or smell: a whiff of onions.
3.
a single inhalation or exhalation of air, tobacco smoke, or the like.
4.
a trace or hint: a whiff of scandal.
5.
a slight outburst: a little whiff of temper.
verb (used without object)
6.
to blow or come in whiffs or puffs, as wind or smoke.
7.
to inhale or exhale whiffs, as in smoking tobacco.
8.
Baseball Slang. (of a batter) to strike out by swinging at and missing the pitch charged as the third strike.
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verb (used with object)
9.
to blow or drive with a whiff or puff, as the wind does.
10.
to inhale or exhale (air, tobacco smoke, etc.) in whiffs.
11.
to smoke (a pipe, cigar, etc.).
12.
Baseball Slang. (of a pitcher) to cause (a batter) to whiff.
Origin:
1585–95; aspirated variant of Middle English weffe whiff (of steam or vapor)
1585–95; aspirated variant of Middle English weffe whiff (of steam or vapor)
Related forms
whiff·er, noun
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Word Origin & History
whiff
13c., weffe "foul scent or odor," of imitative origin. Modern form became popular late 16c. with tobacco smoking, probably influenced by whiffle "blow in gusts or puffs" (1568). The verb in the baseball slang sense "to swing at a ball and miss" first recorded 1913.
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