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noun

Whiff n.

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." "The skipper, he blew a whiff from his pipe, And a scornful laugh laughed he."

A glimpse; a hasty view. (Prov. Eng.)

(Zool.) The marysole, or sail fluke.

verb

Whiff v. t. (past & past part. whiffed; pres. part. whiffing)

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

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."

Whiff v. i. To emit whiffs, as of smoke; to puff.

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"Whiff" Quotes from Famous Books

... better players than I am at the club," he said in extenuation. "I think I'll smoke a whiff or two here and go back. They can't hold on much ...

— The Grafters • Francis Lynde

... gazed at the decorations, the wreaths, the gauze, the tinsel, and paper angels, suspended by invisible wires over the counters, and all glittering and shining and twinkling with light, a strong whiff of evergreen fragrance came to her, and the aroma of fir-balsam, and it was to her the very breath of all the mysterious joy and hitherto untasted festivity of this earth into which she had come. She felt deep in her childish soul the sense ...

— The Portion of Labor • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... homeward from an evening walk, a long ramble among the peaceful hills which inclosed their rustic home. Into these peaceful hills the young man had brought, not the rumor, (which was an old inhabitant,) but some of the reality of war,—a little whiff of gunpowder, the clanking of a sword; for, although Mr. John Ford had his campaign still before him, he wore a certain comely air of camp-life which stamped him a very Hector to the steady-going villagers, and a very pretty fellow to Miss ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 • Various

... it. 'I'll have to ask you to get back where you came from,' he said. 'This ain't no place for passengers'—and up I came. What do you think it means? I'd get ugly, too, if he kept me in that heat and never let me get a whiff of air. I tell you, that's an awful place down there. Suppose you go and take a look. Your knowing the Captain might make ...

— A List To Starboard - 1909 • F. Hopkinson Smith

... down the aisles at the sides and in and out of the stalls, eating sweetmeats and visiting their friends. And there was scarcely a grown person in the entire audience of Japanese who was not smoking, for women as well as men smoke in Japan: one pinch of tobacco in a short pipe, one puff, a little whiff of smoke inhaled and the operation is over. Before the curtain rose, the Nesan flew busily from one box to the other with cushions and sweetmeats, baskets of oranges and boxes of sweet pickled black beans. ...

— The Motor Maids in Fair Japan • Katherine Stokes

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