whiff

whiff

1. (myös kuvaannollisesti) haiskahdus, häivä, se että saadaan jokin hajuaistimus (lyhytaikainen hajutuntemus joka aistitaan)

2. kuva "säväys", pieni aromaattinen lisä tms.

Esimerkkejä:

:Take a whiff on me

:All you rounders, take a whiff on me

:Hey, hey, honey, take a whiff on me

not a whiff of truth in this

just a whiff of garlic

Synonyymisanakirja

whiff

hutipalo, laatallepalo, suorapalo, palo, poltto, vasensilmäkampelat, Citharichthys, Citharichthys-suku, vasensilmäkampela, Citharichthys cornutus, puuska, tuulenpuuska, puuskahdus, ilmavirta, kova tuuli, puhuri, leuhahdus, tuulahdus, henkäys, vire.

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Englannin sanakirja

whiff (englanti > suomi)

1. tuulahdus

2. tuoksahdus

3. henkäys

4. lasikampela

5. tuulahtaa

6. nuuhkaista

7. lyödä ohi

whiff englanniksi

1. A waft; a brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air

2. An odour carried briefly through the air

3. (quote-video)|title=Hardball|network=(w)|passage=...everyone has always known, widely promiscuous heterosexual men have, as I say, a whiff of the bathhouse about them.

4. 1922, (w), w:Jacob’s Room|Jacobs Room'' Chapter 2

A whiff of rotten eggs had vanquished the pale clouded yellows which came pelting across the orchard and up Dods Hill and away on to the moor(..)

5. A short inhalation of breath, especially of smoke from a cigarette or pipe

6. Longfellow

The skipper, he blew a whiff from his pipe, / And a scornful laugh laughed he.

7. puhekieltä a slight sign of something; a glimpse

8. 2012, Ben Smith, Leeds United 2-1 Everton http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19632366

This was a rare whiff of the big-time for a club whose staple diet became top-flight football for so long—the glamour was in short supply, however. Thousands of empty seats and the driving Yorkshire rain saw to that.

9. puhekieltä A strike (from the batter’s perspective)

10. The megrim, a fish (taxlink) or (taxlink).

11. puhekieltä To waft.

12. puhekieltä To sniff.

13. puhekieltä To strike out.

14. puhekieltä To attempt to strike and miss, especially being off-balance/vulnerable after missing.

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

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

17. Ben Jonson

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.

18. puhekieltä Having a strong or unpleasant odor.

19. 2002: Jim Rozen, Way oil in http://groups.google.com/group/rec.crafts.metalworking/tree/browse_frm/thread/3084282439173800/cec9c5577a957367?rnum=1&_done=%2Fgroup%2Frec.crafts.metalworking%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2F3084282439173800%2F92d18edd30f1a192%3Flnk%3Dst%26q%3D%26rnum%3D4%26doc_1a1e0c80362dcf40 rec.crafts.metalworking

Whoo boy that gear oil is pretty whiff. If you actually do this, spend the extra money for the synthetic gear oil as it will not have as bad a sulfur stink as the regular stuff.

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