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whiff
noun
A waft; a brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air
An odour carried briefly through the air
A short inhalation of breath, especially of smoke from a cigarette or pipe
(
baseball
) A strike (from the batter's perspective)
The megrim, a fish with scientific name
Lepidorhombus boscii
or
Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis
Translations:
Spanish: bocanadas
(
trans-bottom
) (
trans-top, An odour carried briefly through the air
)
verb
(
transitive
) To waft.
(
transitive
) To sniff.
(
context, intransitive, baseball
) To strike out.
(slang) to attempt to strike and miss, esp. being off-balance/vulnerable after missing.
Translations:
adjective
(
colloquial
) Having a strong or unpleasant odor.
2002:
Jim Rozen,
Way oil
in rec.crafts.metalworking
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.crafts.metalworking/tree/browse_frm/thread/3084282439173800/cec9c5577a957367?rnum=1&_done=%2Fgroup%2Frec.crafts.metalworking%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2F3084282439173800%2F92d18edd30f1a192%3Flnk%3Dst%26q%3D%26rnum%3D4%26
doc_1a1e0c80362dcf40
:Whoo boy that gear oil is pretty . 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.
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