whiffing

noun — 2 senses

whiffing

noun

1

The act of one who, or that which, whiffs.

[…] the tea had been poured from the cups into the deep saucers from which it would have been drunk with genteel blowings and whiffings, according to the custom of the time.2014, Charlotte MacLeod, The Grub-and-Stakers House a Haunt:

2

A mode of fishing with a handline for pollock, mackerel, etc.

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