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The meaning of WHIFF is a quick puff or slight gust especially of air, odor, gas, smoke, or spray. How to use whiff in a sentence.
verb (used without object) to blow or come in light puffs, such as of wind or smoke: A breeze whiffed through the clearing, cooling our faces. to inhale or exhale in light puffs, such as when smoking tobacco: She was sitting on the porch, whiffing on a cigarette.
[ I ] US slang. to try to hit a ball, puck, or person and miss completely : He took a wild swing and whiffed badly. [ T ] US slang. In baseball, if a pitcher whiffs a batter, they cause them to strike out (= to lose their turn because they have failed three times to hit the ball successfully): Jordan whiffed Sims with a high fastball.
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whiff verb (IN SPORT) [ I ] US slang. to try to hit a ball, puck, or person and miss completely : He took a wild swing and whiffed badly. [ T ] US slang. In baseball, if a pitcher whiffs a batter, they cause them to strike out (= to lose their turn because they have failed three times to hit the ball successfully):
Synonyms for WHIFFS: hints, touches, glimmers, flickers, breaths, traces, suggestions, signs; Antonyms of WHIFFS: saturations, permeations, pervasions.
A whiff can mean the hint of something you smell. When you drive past the sewage treatment plant and suddenly roll up your car windows, it's usually because you've gotten a whiff of the plant's special odor. Whiff can be used as either a noun or verb, and it implies a brief or small puff or sniff.
n. 1. a. A brief, passing odor carried in the air: a whiff of perfume. b. A very small trace: a whiff of self-pity in her remarks. 2. An inhalation, as of air or smoke: Take a whiff of this pipe. 3. A slight, gentle gust of air; a waft: A whiff of cool air blew into the room. 4. Baseball A strikeout. v. whiffed, whiff·ing, whiffs. v.intr. 1.
