English Dictionary

whiff

IPA（発音記号）

/(h)wɪf/

名詞

古語 広義 比喩的用法 アメリカ英語 俗語 廃用

A brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air; a waft. / A short inhalation or exhalation of breath, especially when accompanied by smoke from a cigarette or pipe.

日本語の意味

一陣のそよ風、軽い風、さっと通り過ぎる風を表す。 / （特にタバコやパイプの煙を伴って）短く一瞬の呼吸、すなわち短い吸息や吐息を表す。

A whiff of spring air ruffled the curtains as she sipped her tea on the balcony.

バルコニーでお茶を飲んでいると、春のそよ風がカーテンをそっと揺らした。

意味（1）

A brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air; a waft.

Purrus at Pryam driues, but all in rage, / Strikes vvide, but vvith the vvhiffe and vvinde / Of his fell ſvvord, th'unnerued father falles.

意味（2）

A short inhalation or exhalation of breath, especially when accompanied by smoke from a cigarette or pipe.

意味（3）

(by extension, archaic) A cigarette or small cigar.

意味（4）

An odour (usually unpleasant) carried briefly through the air.

And then, ſo nice, and ſo genteel; / Such Cleanlineſs from Head to Heel: / No Humours groſs, or frowzy Steams, / No noiſom Whiffs, or ſweaty Streams, / Before, behind, above, below, / Could from her taintleſs Body flow.

意味（5）

A small quantity of cloud, smoke, vapour, etc.; specifically (obsolete), chiefly in take the whiff: a puff of tobacco smoke.

Shift. […] His chiefe exerciſes are, taking the VVhiffe, ſquiring a Cockatrice, and making priuy ſearches for Imparters.

意味（6）

A flag used as a signal; a waff, a waif, a wheft.

When the Indiaman was within a mile, the stranger threw out neutral colours, and hoisted a whiff, half-mast down, as a signal that she was in distress.

意味（7）

The name of a number of flatfish such as (dated) the lemon sole (Microstomus kitt) and now, especially, the megrim (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis) and (with a descriptive word) a species of large-tooth flounder or sand flounder (family Paralichthyidae).

意味（8）

A slight sign of something; a burst, a glimpse, a hint.

[I]t reflects to the diſrepute of our Miniſters […] that after all this light of the Goſpel vvhich is, and is to be, and all this continuall preaching, they ſhould be ſtill frequented vvith ſuch an unprincipl'd, unedify'd, and laick rabble, as that the vvhiffe of every nevv pamphlet ſhould ſtagger them out of thir catechiſm, and Chriſtian vvalking.

意味（9）

A slight attack or touch.

意味（10）

A characteristic quality of something; a flavour, a savour, a taste.

意味（11）

A sound like that of air passing through a small opening; a short or soft whistle.

Nic. anſvver'd little to that, but immediately pull'd out a Boatſvvain's VVhistle; upon the firſt VVhiff, the Tradeſmen came jumping into the Room, […]

意味（12）

(sports, chiefly US, slang) A failure to hit a ball in various sports (for example, golf); a miss.

意味（13）

(archaic) An expulsion of explosive or shot.

Singular: in old Broglie's time, six years ago, this Whiff of Grapeshot was promised: but it could not be given then; could not have profited then.

意味（14）

(nautical) An outrigged boat for one person propelled by oar.

意味（15）

(obsolete) A sip of an alcoholic beverage.

Fly about vvhither thou vvilt, […] thou ſhalt no vvhere finde reſt for the ſoles of thy feet, but in this Arke of Chriſts perfect righteouſneſſe: In vaine ſhalt thou ſeeke it […] in beds of luſt, cheſts of Mammon, vvhiffes and draughts of intoxication, ſongs of ribaldry, ſports of recreation; […]

whiffs （ plural ）