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Synonyms for whiff
ʰwɪf, wɪfwhiff

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  1. whiffnoun

    Synonyms:
    waft, sniff, puff

  2. whiffnoun

    A waft; a brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air

    Synonyms:
    waft, sniff, puff

  3. whiffnoun

    An odour carried briefly through the air

    Synonyms:
    sniff, puff, waft

  4. whiffnoun

    To strike out.

    Synonyms:
    puff, sniff, waft

  5. whiffnoun

    A strike (from the batter’s perspective)

    Synonyms:
    puff, sniff, waft

  6. whiffnoun

    The megrim, a fish with scientific name Lepidorhombus boscii or Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis

    Synonyms:
    puff, waft, sniff

Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 1 vote

  1. puff, puff of air, whiffnoun

    a short light gust of air

    Synonyms:
    pull, pouffe, quilt, puff of air, drag, comfort, blow, comforter, hassock, powderpuff, ottoman, puff

  2. whiffnoun

    a lefteye flounder found in coastal waters from New England to Brazil

    Synonyms:
    puff, puff of air

  3. whiffverb

    a strikeout resulting from the batter swinging at and missing the ball for the third strike

    Synonyms:
    puff, puff of air

  4. sniff, whiffverb

    perceive by inhaling through the nose

    "sniff the perfume"

    Synonyms:
    sniffle, sniff, puff

  5. whiffverb

    drive or carry as if by a puff of air

    "The gust of air whiffed away the clouds"

    Synonyms:
    sniff, puff

  6. whiffverb

    strike out by swinging and missing the pitch charged as the third

    Synonyms:
    sniff, puff

  7. puff, whiffverb

    smoke and exhale strongly

    "puff a cigar"; "whiff a pipe"

    Synonyms:
    blow up, drag, heave, huff, chuff, sniff, puff up, pant, puff out, gasp, draw, puff

  8. whiffverb

    utter with a puff of air

    "whiff out a prayer"

    Synonyms:
    sniff, puff

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. whiffnoun

    Synonyms:
    puff, blast, sudden gust

  2. whiffverb

    Synonyms:
    puff

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "whiff":

    puff, smell, breath, odour

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How to use whiff in a sentence?

  1. P. J. O'Rourke:

    There’s a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any over-large concentration of like-minded individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.

  2. Margaret Duffy:

    There's a whiff of genuine concern and social responsibility that brands and advertisers are showing.

  3. Jerry Morgan:

    He would be the last person on earth I would suspect, if I would have had even of whiff of that I would have fired him and slapped him upside his head.

  4. Rio Tinto chairman Simon Thompson:

    The institutional shareholders are starting to get a greater whiff of the responsibilities of being a shareholder. In the past, they didn’t care. Those days are long gone.

  5. Richard Clayton of Cambridge University:

    It's not so much a smoking gun as a faint whiff of smoke a long way away. Maybe there's something else going on. It's hard to tell.


Translations for whiff

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  • повей, полъхBulgarian
  • HauchGerman
  • bocanadas, soplo, hálitoSpanish
  • henkäys, nuuhkaista, tuoksahdus, tuulahdus, lasikampela, lyödä ohi, tuulahtaaFinnish
  • bouffée, souffle, effluve, cardine francheFrench
  • vēsmaLatvian
  • ruiken, sterk, trek, geurig, teug, adem, vlaag, geur, snuiven, geuren, vleugDutch
  • дуновение, принюхиваться, мегрим, дуть, веять, затяжка, запашокRussian
  • کفناUrdu

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