What does "whiff" mean?
Whiff: A glimpse; a hasty view. [Prov. Eng.]
Additional senses
- 2.(Zoöl.) The marysole, or sail fluke.
- 3.To throw out in whiffs; to consume in whiffs; to puff.
- 4.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.
- 5.To emit whiffs, as of smoke; to puff.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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