whiffer / wɪf, ʰwɪf /

喷雾器挥发者鞭炮鞭炮声

whiffer3 个定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a slight gust or puff of wind, air, vapor, smoke, or the like: a whiff of fresh air.
  2. a slight trace of odor or smell: a whiff of onions.
  3. a single inhalation or exhalation of air, tobacco smoke, or the like.
v. 无主动词 verb
  1. to blow or come in whiffs or puffs, as wind or smoke.
  2. to inhale or exhale whiffs, as in smoking tobacco.
  3. Baseball Slang. to strike out by swinging at and missing the pitch charged as the third strike.
v. 有主动词 verb
  1. to blow or drive with a whiff or puff, as the wind does.
  2. to inhale or exhale in whiffs.
  3. to smoke.
  4. Baseball Slang. to cause to whiff.

whiffer 近义词

whiffer

等同于 nose

更多whiffer例句

  1. Off it, Snyder continues to recirculate his bad air and give the organization an unsavory whiff.
  2. Suddenly, it hits you—a texture of reality carried by a strong whiff of … horse manure.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. I appreciate the simple things I took for granted – each breath, whiff of fresh air, the sun and trees.
  6. There were stories of distant strife, in Bosnia, Rwanda, and Northern Ireland, and those stories had the whiff of a different era.
  7. Griswold was undeniably an incursion on democratic powers with a definite whiff of activism.
  8. Nobody should waste their time penning letters that any pediatrician with a whiff of insight will ignore.
  9. I stepped off the plane, caught that first groggy whiff of jet fuel and my body instantly registered where I was.
  10. But alongside all the true-fandom, a whiff of regret lingers.
  11. Then I caught a whiff of burning wood and in ten minutes I was reconnoitering a tiny glade.
  12. The next instant he caught a whiff of smoke and saw it rising in a dense cloud through the trees.
  13. A whiff of foreign smell and a sound of foreign speech reached the passengers at about the same moment.
  14. At last the fire of the corsair ceased, and a whiff of air carried away the smoke.
  15. Then when he caught a faint whiff of the game, he would stop short, and look around, and wag his tail.