whiff

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

Noun

1. A brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air; a waft.
2. A short inhalation or exhalation of breath, especially when accompanied by smoke from a cigarette or pipe.
3. (archaic, broadly) A short inhalation or exhalation of breath, especially when accompanied by smoke from a cigarette or pipe.
4. An odour (usually unpleasant) carried briefly through the air.
5. A small quantity of cloud, smoke, vapour, etc.; specifically (obsolete), chiefly in take the whiff: a puff of tobacco smoke.
6. A flag used as a signal.
7. Any of a number of flatfish such as (dated) the lemon sole (Microstomus kitt) and now, especially, the megrim (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis) and (with a descriptive word) a species of large-tooth flounder or sand flounder (family Paralichthyidae).
8. (figuratively) A slight sign of something; a burst, a glimpse, a hint.
9. (figuratively) A slight attack or touch.
10. (figuratively) A characteristic quality of something; a flavour, a savour, a taste.
11. (figuratively) A sound like that of air passing through a small opening; a short or soft whistle.
12. (US, figuratively, slang) A failure to hit a ball in various sports (for example, golf); a miss.
13. (US, figuratively, slang) A failure to hit a ball in various sports (for example, golf); a miss.
14. (archaic) An expulsion of explosive or shot.
15. An outrigged boat for one person propelled by oar.
16. (obsolete) A sip of an alcoholic beverage.

Verb

1. (transitive) To carry or convey (something) by, or as by, a whiff or puff of air; to blow, puff, or waft away.
2. (transitive) To say (something) with an exhalation of breath.
3. (transitive) To inhale or exhale (smoke from tobacco, etc.) from a cigarette, pipe, or other smoking implement; to smoke (a cigarette, pipe, etc.); to puff.
4. (transitive) To breathe in or sniff (an odour); to smell.
5. (archaic, dated, slang, transitive) To shoot (someone) with a firearm; hence, to assassinate or kill (someone).
6. (US, slang, transitive) Of a pitcher: to strike out (a batter); to fan.
7. (obsolete, transitive) To consume (an alcoholic beverage).
8. (intransitive) To move in a way that causes a light gust of air, or a whistling sound.
9. (intransitive) To be carried, or move as if carried, by a puff of air; to waft.
10. (intransitive) To smoke a cigarette, pipe, or other smoking implement.
11. (intransitive) To smell; to sniff.
12. (intransitive, slang) To give off or have an unpleasant smell; to stink.
13. (US, intransitive, slang) Especially in baseball or golf: to completely miss hitting a ball; hence (baseball), of a batter: to strike out; to fan.
14. (broadly, intransitive, slang) To fail spectacularly.
15. (intransitive, slang) In fighting games, to execute a move that fails to hit the opponent.
16. (intransitive) To catch fish by dragging a handline near the surface of the water from a moving boat.

Adj

Having a strong or unpleasant odour.

Intj

Used to indicate a sound like that of air passing through a small opening, that is, a short or soft whistle.

Έννοιες

πνοή

πουράκι

πνοή ανέμου

σιγαρέττο

τσιγάρο

φυσώ

μυρίζω

μυρουδιά

οσφραίνομαι

ρουφώ

φύσημα

αναδίδω δυσοσμία

βγάζω αλλεπάλληλες τολύπες καπνού

αγιάζι

εκβάλλω καπνό

αναπνοή

εισπνέω

Συνώνυμα

puff

sniff

breath

smell

👃

gust

blast

blow

waft

scent

burning

wind

odor

breeze

aura

puff of air

snort

sense

listen

megrim

out

putout

sip

smoke

sniffle

take a breath

taste

winnow

niff

quick blast

animation

fuff

aspirate

blatancy

blowing

breathe

cigarette

🚬

fan

feel

fire

🔥

flavor

flavour

fleeting

flurry

gust of wind

hear

inhale

inspiration

Μεταφράσεις

bouffée

soplo

Hauch

hálito

soffio

soffiare

vleug

zuchtje

bocanadas

souffle

adem

alito

ruiken

👃

Luftzug

cigarette

🚬

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/(h)wɪf/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

Κληρονομήθηκε από Μέσα Αγγλικά: wef

Κληρονομήθηκε από Παλαιά Αγγλικά: wafian

Κληρονομήθηκε από Παλαιά Αγγλικά: wefan

In summary

The noun is possibly:
* partly a variant of Middle English wef, weffe (“bad smell, stench, stink; exhalation; vapour; tendency of something to go bad (?)”) [and other forms], possibly a variant of either:
** waf, waif, waife (“odour, scent”), possibly from waven (“to move to and fro, sway, wave; to stray, wander; to move in a weaving manner; (figuratively) to hesitate, vacillate”), from Old English wafian (“to wave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”); or
** wef (“a blow, stroke”), from weven (“to travel, wander; to move to and fro, flutter, waver; to blow something away, waft; to cause something to move; to fall; to cut deeply; to sever; to give up, yield; to give deference to; to avoid; to afflict, trouble; to beckon, signal”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps from Old English wefan (“to weave”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”)), or from wǣfan (see bewǣfan, ymbwǣfan); and
* partly onomatopoeic.
Noun sense 6 (“name of a number of flatfish”) is possibly derived from sense 1 (“brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air”), sense 4 (“small quantity of cloud, smoke, vapour, etc.”), and other such senses.
The verb and adjective are derived from the noun. Verb sense 2.6 (“to catch fish by dragging a handline near the surface of the water from a moving boat”) is possibly derived from sense 1.1 (“to carry or convey (something) by, or as by, a whiff or puff of air”), sense 2.2 (“to be carried, or move as if carried, by a puff of air”), and other such senses.
The interjection is derived from noun sense 7.4 (“a sound like that of air passing through a small opening; a short or soft whistle”).