whiff: significado e definições

A slight, gentle gust of air; a waft: a whiff of cool air.

A brief, passing odor carried in the air: a whiff of perfume.

A minute trace: "Humanity is unregenerable and hates the language of conformity, since conformity has a whiff of the inhuman about it” ( Anthony Burgess).

An inhalation, as of air or smoke: Take a whiff of this pipe.

Baseball A strikeout.

To be carried in brief gusts; waft: puffs of smoke whiffing from the chimney.

Sports To swing at and miss a ball or puck.

Baseball To strike out. Used of a batter.

To blow or convey in whiffs.

To inhale through the nose; sniff: a dog whiffing the air.

Baseball To strike out (a batter).