whiff
verb/wɪf/
/wɪf/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they whiff | /wɪf/ /wɪf/ |
| he / she / it whiffs | /wɪfs/ /wɪfs/ |
| past simple whiffed | /wɪft/ /wɪft/ |
| past participle whiffed | /wɪft/ /wɪft/ |
| -ing form whiffing | /ˈwɪfɪŋ/ /ˈwɪfɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] (British English, informal) to smell bad
- [intransitive] (North American English) (in golf or baseball) to try without success to hit the ballTopics Sports: ball and racket sportsc2
Word Originlate 16th cent. (originally in the senses ‘gust of wind’ and ‘inhalation of tobacco smoke’, also, as a verb, ‘blow with a slight gust’): imitative.
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