Dictionary Entry
whiff
whiff is a 5-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A sudden expulsion of air from the mouth; a quick puff or slight gust, as of air or smoke. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 16 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A sudden expulsion of air from the mouth; a quick puff or slight gust, as of air or smoke.
- 2noun
A glimpse; a hasty view.
- 3noun
The marysole, or sail fluke.
- 4transitive verb
To throw out in whiffs; to consume in whiffs; to puff.
- 5transitive verb
To carry or convey by a whiff, or as by a whiff; to puff or blow away.
- 6intransitive verb
To emit whiffs, as of smoke; to puff.
- 7noun
a strikeout resulting from the batter swinging at and missing the ball for the third strike
- 8noun
a lefteye flounder found in coastal waters from New England to Brazil
- 9noun
a short light gust of air
Synonyms
- 10verb
utter with a puff of air
"whiff out a prayer"
- 11verb
smoke and exhale strongly
"puff a cigar"
"whiff a pipe"
Synonyms
- 12verb
strike out by swinging and missing the pitch charged as the third
- 13verb
drive or carry as if by a puff of air
"The gust of air whiffed away the clouds"
- 14verb
perceive by inhaling through the nose
"sniff the perfume"
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