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Synonyymit

Ääntäminen

Määritelmät

Substantiivit

  1. A waft; a brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air
  2. An odour carried briefly through the air
  3. A short inhalation of breath, especially of smoke from a cigarette or pipe
  4. (figurative) a slight sign of something; a glimpse
  5. (baseball) A strike (from the batter’s perspective)
  6. The megrim, a fish Lepidorhombus boscii or Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis.

Verbit

  1. (transitive) To waft.
  2. (transitive) To sniff.
  3. (intransitive, baseball) To strike out.
  4. (slang) to attempt to strike and miss, especially being off-balance/vulnerable after missing.
  5. To throw out in whiffs; to consume in whiffs; to puff.
  6. To carry or convey by a whiff, or as by a whiff; to puff or blow away.

Adjektiivit

  1. (colloquial) Having a strong or unpleasant odor.

Esimerkit

  • everyone has always known, widely promiscuous heterosexual men have, as I say, a whiff of the bathhouse about them.
  • A whiff of rotten eggs had vanquished the pale clouded yellows which came pelting across the orchard and up Dods Hill and away on to the moor[...]
  • The skipper, he blew a whiff from his pipe, / And a scornful laugh laughed he.
  • This was a rare whiff of the big-time for a club whose staple diet became top-flight football for so long - the glamour was in short supply, however. Thousands of empty seats and the driving Yorkshire rain saw to that.
  • Old Empedocles, [...] who, when he leaped into Etna, having a dry, sear body, and light, the smoke took him, and whiffed him up into the moon.
  • Whoo boy that gear oil is pretty whiff. If you actually do this, spend the extra money for the synthetic gear oil as it will not have as bad a sulfur stink as the regular stuff.

Taivutusmuodot

Partisiipin perfektiwhiffedImperfektiwhiffed
Partisiipin preesenswhiffingMonikkowhiffs
Komparatiivimore whiffSuperlatiivimost whiff
Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesenswhiffs

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