Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet WHIFF

Definition av WHIFF

1. pust, stöt med luftström; fläkt, puff, lättare knuff
2. lukt, doft
3. bloss; inandning, indragning av luft
4. sus, tonlöst ljud
5. skottsalva, laddning i eldvapen
6. roddbåt, en mindre båt som framdrivs med åror
7. pusta, blåsa ut luft
8. bolma, blåsa ut tobaksrök
9. lukta (illa), nästan stinka
10. (vardagligt) cigarill, cigarrcigarett, en minimerad variant av en cigarr
11. (fiskar) glasvar, en genomskinlig plattfisk

Exempel på hur man kan använda WHIFF i en mening

• To Europe, Italy is "tax-dodging, Berlusconi-style Latin lovers and mama's boys, incapable of bravery", Poland is "heavy-drinking ultracatholics with a whiff of antisemitism", and Spain is "macho men and fiery women prone to regular siestas and fiestas".
• During the 2005 general election campaign McNamara claimed some of the policies regarding illegal travellers' sites of the leader of the Conservative Party, Michael Howard had a "whiff of the gas chambers" about them.
• Westman writes that a "whiff" of absolute space can be observed in Copernicus's De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, where Copernicus uses the concept of an immobile sphere of stars.
• Various species known as sanddab, whiff, and flounder are in this genus, and the most common species is the Pacific sanddab, Citharichthys sordidus.
• " Penelope Lively of The New York Times Book Review called it "brisk, undemanding, conventional but plausible enough" and wrote that "if there is a whiff of therapy, maybe only the curmudgeonly adult reader will be perturbed.
• Pilkey is still having entirely too much fun with this popular series, which continues to careen along with nary a whiff of staleness.
• make it easy to forget that there's nary a whit of guitar and only the briefest whiff of standard-issue keyboards in play.
• Narayan, and there's more than whiff of Kipling in his avuncular fascination with scramblers and hustlers.
• Rowley's designs were described by The New York Times as "flirty, vibrantly colored dresses and tops in wispy materials" that have "a whiff of the carefree, simple spirit" of Claire McCardell.
• Between Abel's offscreen cancer death to Amelia's icy resting place…there was a real whiff of death in this episode.
• Buchholz has never compiled large strikeout totals, but his changeup does have a high whiff rate of 45%.
• The merest whiff of vengas infects its victims with bliss so glorious that it drives them insane; the victims slowly die witless.
• After the "whiff of grapeshot" in the crisis of 13 Vendémiaire, in October 1795, they ceased to be a significant factor in Parisian politics.
• The megrim, megrim sole, whiff, or Cornish sole (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis) is a species of left-eyed flatfish in the family Scophthalmidae.
• During the NFC Championship game, with Chicago trailing 21–7, Caleb Hanie, who was playing for an injured Jay Cutler, lofted a pass toward the left sideline to Bennett, who made Nick Collins whiff on the tackle and then raced untouched into the endzone for a 35-yard touchdown, but Green Bay still won the game 21–14.
• When Danican's poorly trained men attacked, on 5 October 1795, 13 Vendémiaire, 4 in the calendar used in France, at the time—Napoleon ordered his cannons to fire grapeshot into the mob, an act that became known as the "whiff of grapeshot".
• Marketed as an "erotic noir-thriller", the film incited some tough criticism for the more explicit content which it explores, earning it the title of "a limp, sleazy inanity" with "a whiff of voyeuristic self-indulgence" in Varietys review of the film.
• " Given his weakness for bongos and syrupy strings, the new set isn't without a whiff of schmaltz; more than once you'll think he's about to cover "Take My Breath Away.
• On these fine programs, you can see the influence of Isadora Duncan in Chopin dances performed with lovely sincerity by the Rices, or get a whiff of German modernism in Miriam Marmein's circa 1932 mime, Argument des Boulevardiers, in which Valerie Farias Newton and Rebecca Rice wear mannish attire and gesticulate with rhythmic fury.

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