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whiffy

adj

Etymology

From whiff + -y.

  1. inherited from wefan — “to weave”
  2. inherited from *webʰ-✻ — “to braid, weave”
  3. inherited from wafian — “to wave”
  4. inherited from wef
  5. suffixed as whiffy — “whiff + y”

Definitions

  1. Having a bad smell.

    • The whiffy smell of the compost pile made me turn away.
    • The clothes smelled whiffy after being left in the damp laundry room.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for whiffy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA