Whiff

English Meaning

A sudden expulsion of air from the mouth; a quick puff or slight gust, as of air or smoke.

1. A slight, gentle gust of air; a waft: a whiff of cool air.
2. A brief, passing odor carried in the air: a whiff of perfume.
3. A minute trace: "Humanity is unregenerable and hates the language of conformity, since conformity has a whiff of the inhuman about it” ( Anthony Burgess).
4. An inhalation, as of air or smoke: Take a whiff of this pipe.
5. Baseball A strikeout.
6. To be carried in brief gusts; waft: puffs of smoke whiffing from the chimney.
7. Sports To swing at and miss a ball or puck.
8. Baseball To strike out. Used of a batter.
9. To blow or convey in whiffs.
10. To inhale through the nose; sniff: a dog whiffing the air.
11. Baseball To strike out (a batter).