The meaning of WHIFF is a quick puff or slight gust especially of air, odor, gas, smoke, or spray. How to use whiff in a sentence.

1. a slight gust or puff of wind, air, vapor, smoke, or the like. 2. a slight trace of odor or smell: a whiff of onions.

The incident had a whiff [= hint] of scandal about it. I detected a whiff of sarcasm in her voice.

WHIFF definition: 1. a slight smell, carried on a current of air: 2. a slight sign of something: 3. to have an…. Learn more.

Definition of whiff noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. whiff (of something) a smell, especially one that you only smell for a short time. He caught a whiff of perfume as he …

Whiff definition: An inhalation, as of air or smoke.

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025 whiff1 /hwɪf, wɪf/ n. [countable] a slight gust or puff, as of wind or smoke. a slight trace, as of an odor; hint: …

A whiff can mean the hint of something you smell. When you drive past the sewage treatment plant and suddenly roll up your car windows, it's usually because you've gotten a whiff of the …

If there is a whiff of a particular smell, you smell it only slightly or only for a brief period of time, for example as you walk past someone or something.

any of several flatfishes having both eyes on the left side of the head, of the genus Citharichthys, as C. cornutus horned whiff, inhabiting Atlantic waters from New England to Brazil.