noun [usuallysing.]
1 ~ (of sth) a smell, especially one that you only smell for a short time:
a whiff of cigar smoke * He caught a whiff of perfume as he leaned towards her.
2 ~ (of sth) a slight sign or feeling of sth:
a whiff of danger / fear / success
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for whiff is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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