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English Dictionary: whiffed by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
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