English Dictionary

whiff

IPA（発音記号）

/(h)wɪf/

動詞

他動詞 語釈なし 廃用 俗語 自動詞

To carry or convey (something) by, or as by, a whiff or puff of air; to blow, puff, or waft away. / To say (something) with an exhalation of breath.

日本語の意味

風や空気の一吹きによって、物を運んだり漂わせたりする / 息を吹きかけることで、何かを発する、という意味で使われる場合もある

A warm breeze can whiff the smell of freshly baked bread through the open doorway, making my mouth water.

暖かい風が焼きたてのパンの香りを戸口にふわっと運んできて、思わずよだれが出そうになった。

意味（1）

To carry or convey (something) by, or as by, a whiff or puff of air; to blow, puff, or waft away.

There are in all but three vvayes of going thither [to the moon]. […] [The] third, Old Empedocles vvay; vvho vvhen he leaped into Ætna, having a drie ſeare bodie, and light, the ſmoake took him and vvhift him up into the Moone, vvhere he lives yet vvaving up and dovvne like a feather, all foot and embers comming out of that cole-pit; our Poet met him, and talkt vvith him.

意味（2）

To say (something) with an exhalation of breath.

[H]e ſat ſolitary and penſive vvith his pipe—looking at his lame leg—then vvhiffing out a ſentimental heigh ho! vvhich mixing vvith the ſmoak, incommoded no one mortal.

意味（3）

To inhale or exhale (smoke from tobacco, etc.) from a cigarette, pipe, or other smoking implement; to smoke (a cigarette, pipe, etc.); to puff.

VVhat pleaſure tak'ſt thou in that breath, vvhich dravvs & vvhiffs perpetuall fears?

意味（4）

To breathe in or sniff (an odour); to smell.

Come, come, my deare, and let us both retire / And vvhiffe the dainties of the fragrant fields: […]

意味（5）

(slang); (obsolete) To consume (an alcoholic beverage).

Hee therefore that would ſtriue to faſhion his leggs to his ſilke ſtockins, and his proud gate to his broad garters, let him whiffe downe theſe obſeruations; […]

意味（6）

To move in a way that causes a light gust of air, or a whistling sound.

意味（7）

To be carried, or move as if carried, by a puff of air; to waft.

[…] I have sought to stay myself, in falling, against what looked to be a solid trunk, and the whole thing has whiffed away at my touch like a sheet of paper.

意味（8）

To smoke a cigarette, pipe, or other smoking implement.

Morrow Captaine Tucca, vvill you vvhiffe this morning?

意味（9）

To smell; to sniff.

意味（10）

(slang); (fishing) To catch fish by dragging a handline near the surface of the water from a moving boat.

whiffs （ present singular third-person ）

whiffing （ participle present ）

whiffed （ participle past ）

whiffed （ past ）