whiff
whiff(
wihf
)A noun is a word referring to a person, animal, place, thing, feeling, or idea (e.g., man, dog, house).
1. (smell)
a. el olorcillo (M)
(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
I caught a whiff of something delicious coming from someone's apartment.Me llegó el olorcillo de algo delicioso desde el apartamento de alguien.
There's a whiff of honeysuckle on the breeze.La brisa tiene un olorcillo a madreselva.
b. el tufillo (M) (unpleasant)
(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
A sudden whiff of raw sewage made me gag.Un tufillo repentino a aguas negras me hizo tener arcadas.
An intransitive verb is one that does not require a direct object (e.g., The man sneezed.).
3. (colloquial) (to smell bad) (United Kingdom)
A word or phrase that is commonly used in conversational speech (e.g., skinny, grandma).
Regionalism used in the United Kingdom
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