資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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.
Whiffing \Whiff"ing\, n.
1. The act of one who, or that which, whiffs.
2. A mode of fishing with a hand line for pollack, mackerel,
and the like.