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Pronunciation : Whiff
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [OE. weffe vapor, whiff, probably of imitative origin; cf. Dan. vift a puff, gust, W. chwiff a whiff, puff.]
Definition : 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. (Zo?l.)

Defn: The marysole, or sail fluke.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Whiff
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : 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.

t. [imp. & p. p. Whiffed; p. pr. & vb. n. Whiffing.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Whiff
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To emit whiffs, as of smoke; to puff.

i.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913