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Meaning of Whiffet | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

A little or faint whiff or puff.

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Examples

“Outside the asylum gates a brass band huffed and thumped with brazen sneezes, silver whiffets, thundering sonorities and a detonating drum, the descant hitched together by a fat woman in a Tyrolese hat and the Erlkönig's longcoat that flocked upon her hips as she squeezed and pulled a Polish accordion as big as a sheep, dipping her knees on the saltarelli and rolling her eyes in a clown's gloat.”

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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