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  • noun Plural form of whiff.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of whiff.

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Examples

  • That's Arabic; you'll get it in whiffs between gusts of French and German all the afternoon.

    The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective 1894

  • He pulled away in revulsion after a few whiffs, which is what most of us would do.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

  • He pulled away in revulsion after a few whiffs, which is what most of us would do.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

  • "He kind of whiffs it down from that general vicinity," Maddon said.

    unknown title 2009

  • The smells come from tubs of paraffin wax that are laced with a variety of aromas such as whiffs resembling the cordite residue of gunfire through to the burnt rubber on a racetrack.

    PC Plus 2009

  • "He kind of whiffs it down from that general vicinity," Maddon said.

    unknown title 2009

  • The smells come from tubs of paraffin wax that are laced with a variety of aromas such as whiffs resembling the cordite residue of gunfire through to the burnt rubber on a racetrack.

    PC Plus 2009

  • "He kind of whiffs it down from that general vicinity," Maddon said.

    unknown title 2009

  • The clerk was as sensuous as the other was aesthetic, and his love adventures, told at great length and chiefly coined from his imagination, affected the supersensitive master of arts in the same way as so many whiffs of sewer gas.

    In a Far Country 2010

  • Out in the real world—the grown-up world I only caught whiffs of now and then—trouble was brewing: in four years, words like “Kent State” and “Cambodia” would enter the national consciousness.

    The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011

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