Whiff
Whiff , noun
[Old English weffe vapor, whiff, probably of imitative origin; compare Danish vift a puff, gust, Welsh chwiff a whiff, puff.]
1.
A sudden expulsion of air from the mouth; a quick puff or slight gust, as of air or smoke.
But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword
The unnerved father falls.
The skipper, he blew a whiff from his pipe,
And a scornful laugh laughed he.
2.
A glimpse; a hasty view. [Provincial English]
3.
(Zoology) The marysole, or sail fluke.
Whiff , transitive verb
1.
To throw out in whiffs; to consume in whiffs; to puff.
2.
To carry or convey by a whiff, or as by a whiff; to puff or blow away.
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.
Whiff , intransitive verb
To emit whiffs, as of smoke; to puff.