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whiff

noun

1 I caught a whiff of peachy perfume:

faint smell, brief smell, trace, sniff, scent, odour, aroma.

2 British, informal there's a terrible whiff in here:

stench, stink, foul smell, reek, fetidness, effluvium, miasma;

British, informal pong, niff, hum;

British, rhyming slang pen and ink;

Scottish, informal guff;

North American, informal funk;

rare fetor, malodour, mephitis, noisomeness.

3 there was the faintest whiff of irony in his letter:

trace, hint, note, suggestion, impression, suspicion, soupçon, touch, nuance, intimation, trifle, drop, dash, tinge, tincture, streak, vein, shred, crumb, shadow, breath, whisper, air, savour, flavour, element, overtone, scintilla, jot, bit, spot, speck, iota;

informal smidgen, tad.

4 whiffs of smoke emerged from the boiler:

puff, gust, blast, rush, flurry, gale, breath, draught, waft.

whiff (1) Oxford Dictionary of English