Whiff (Noun)
Meaning 1
A short light gust of air.
Classification
Nouns denoting natural phenomena.
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Meaning 2
A lefteye flounder found in coastal waters from New England to Brazil.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- The left eye flounder swam quickly away with just a whiff of the predator's presence.
- When the waters turned choppy, the flounder caught a whiff of something familiar on the bottom.
- On calm mornings, the left eye flounder caught a whiff of the low tide mud.
- The smell of spawning fish wafted through the coastal waters, and the left eye flounder picked up the whiff.
- As the dawn sun rose over Brazil's coast, a whiff of the ocean's floor brought the flounder dinner.
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Meaning 3
A strikeout resulting from the batter swinging at and missing the ball for the third strike.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.