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Whiffed

Whiff \Whiff\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Whiffed; p. pr. & vb. n. Whiffing.]

  1. To throw out in whiffs; to consume in whiffs; to puff.

  2. To carry or convey by a whiff, or as by a whiff; to puff or blow away.

    Old Empedocles, . . . who, when he leaped into Etna, having a dry, sear body, and light, the smoke took him, and whiffed him up into the moon.
    --B. Jonson.

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whiffed

vb. (en-past of: whiff)

Usage examples of "whiffed".

Since the transfer of my stock that did show in the record was clearly fraudulent, the deal whiffed of Belle.

Half the lattice is gone: there, the germanium was simply whiffed away.

Crouching along the foundation and sniffing, she whiffed sweat and wine and moist earth.