whiffer 的 3 个定义
- a slight gust or puff of wind, air, vapor, smoke, or the like: a whiff of fresh air.
- a slight trace of odor or smell: a whiff of onions.
- a single inhalation or exhalation of air, tobacco smoke, or the like.
- (5)
- to blow or come in whiffs or puffs, as wind or smoke.
- to inhale or exhale whiffs, as in smoking tobacco.
- Baseball Slang. to strike out by swinging at and missing the pitch charged as the third strike.
- to blow or drive with a whiff or puff, as the wind does.
- to inhale or exhale in whiffs.
- to smoke.
- Baseball Slang. to cause to whiff.
whiffer 近义词
等同于 nose
更多whiffer例句
- Off it, Snyder continues to recirculate his bad air and give the organization an unsavory whiff.
- Suddenly, it hits you—a texture of reality carried by a strong whiff of … horse manure.
- Some Great Big Story employees caught that whiff of trouble later in 2019 as WarnerMedia began to move employees from Time Warner Center to its new home at Hudson Yards.
- We got a whiff of investor enthusiasm last week as the S&P 500 and Nasdaq both rallied to their highest weekly gains in three months.
- I appreciate the simple things I took for granted – each breath, whiff of fresh air, the sun and trees.
- There were stories of distant strife, in Bosnia, Rwanda, and Northern Ireland, and those stories had the whiff of a different era.
- Griswold was undeniably an incursion on democratic powers with a definite whiff of activism.
- Nobody should waste their time penning letters that any pediatrician with a whiff of insight will ignore.
- I stepped off the plane, caught that first groggy whiff of jet fuel and my body instantly registered where I was.
- But alongside all the true-fandom, a whiff of regret lingers.
- Then I caught a whiff of burning wood and in ten minutes I was reconnoitering a tiny glade.
- The next instant he caught a whiff of smoke and saw it rising in a dense cloud through the trees.
- A whiff of foreign smell and a sound of foreign speech reached the passengers at about the same moment.
- At last the fire of the corsair ceased, and a whiff of air carried away the smoke.
- Then when he caught a faint whiff of the game, he would stop short, and look around, and wag his tail.