Crossword-Solution: WHIFFS
We have 6 clues for the answer “WHIFFS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Brief smells | 1 answer |
| Strikes out: Slang. | 1 answer |
| Swings and misses | 1 answer |
| Quick smells | 2 answers |
| Smells | 8 answers |
| Strikes out | 14 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AMZECE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with WHIFFS (5)
Here sleeps the sun long, idle summer hours; Here butterflies and bees fare far to rove Amid the crumpled leaves of poppy flowers; Here four o'clocks, to the passionate night above Fling whiffs of perfume, like pale incense showers.
The poor fellows had only a cracked bowl, without any tube at all, but this morsel of a pipe they handed round from one to the other, allowing to each a fixed number of whiffs.
The oath of the pipe was administered, and each took a few whiffs as reverently as a Churchman would partake of the sacrament.
The sun was very low when they set forth again; the shadows of the forest trees extended across the broad white road that led them home; the penetrating odour of the evening wood had already arisen, like a cloud of incense, from that broad field of tree-tops; and even in the streets of the town, where the air had been baked all day between white walls, it came in whiffs and pulses, like a distant music.
How would a sensitive man like her father stand the constant strain of such a wife, a woman who was all decision, with no softness, and nothing soothing in her nature? It passed as a mere eccentricity when they heard of her stout drinking, her cigarette smoking, her occasional whiffs at a long clay pipe, her horsewhipping of a drunken servant, and her companionship with the snake Eliza, whom she was in the habit of bearing about in her pocket.
Quotes with WHIFFS (2)
When I was a young man, I understood that poetry was two things - it was difficult to understand, but you could understand that the poet was miserable. So for a while there, I wrote poems that were hard to understand, even by me, but gave off whiffs of misery.
I like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don't really know where wittiness is constructive.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, New Yorker, NYT.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1959–2022).