Definition of whiff | Bee Dictionary of English

n a short light gust of air
n a lefteye flounder found in coastal waters from New England to Brazil
n a strikeout resulting from the batter swinging at and missing the ball for the third strike
v perceive by inhaling through the nose
v drive or carry as if by a puff of air
The gust of air whiffed away the clouds
v strike out by swinging and missing the pitch charged as the third
v smoke and exhale strongly
whiff a pipe
v utter with a puff of air
whiff out a prayer

To lend a whiff of aristocracy to his personality, the actor went for a million dollar suit.
I use paper soap and generally avoid high-percentage alcohol gels because they remind me of low quality vodka: A whiff makes me nauseous, and I don't really like the burn.
But a lot of it had a distinct whiff of the endgame about it.

Robert Pattinson Is The Man For Dior Homme
Ooooh, do you smell that? Either someone just set off an olfactory sex bomb...or we're catching our very first whiff of the delicious, heady aroma of Robert Pattinson's first-ever celebrity endorsement deal. And yep, it's the latter! Months after rumors surfaced last fall that Rob would become the new face of Dior's fragrance for men, [...]
June 12, 2013 - MTV
Turning Banville's books into movies
Sir, - It is always a delight to read anything by John Banville, but I am devastated to think that while he considers a film set does have 'something of the airless intensity of the shrine of a sibyl', he feels his novels when finished 'give off not the breath of life but the whiff of decomposition' (Arts & Books, June 8th).
June 11, 2013 - HispanicBusiness.com
Eric Hosmer and Billy Butler escape attempted Gatorade bath untouched (Video)
Your browser does not support iframes. For all of the successful Gatorade baths we've seen this season, I think we had yet to see a complete whiff until Friday night in Kansas City. Following their 4-2 victory over the Houston … Continue reading ?
June 8, 2013 - Big League Stew via Yahoo! Sports

Maxine McKew in Adelaide Independent Weekly
You can smell leadership tension and there's a real whiff around the Liberal Party,government parliamentary secretary Maxine McKew said.
Sarah Polley in Canada.com
Any whiff of censorship is chilling for us,said Polley.
Ed Davey in Times Online
Edward Davey, the Liberal Democrats' chief of staff, said: "Increasingly this sorry affair has the whiff of Watergate about it. For Nixon the crime was the cover-up, but we must await the result of the police investigation to see whether something...