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whiffy

whiffy adjective: having a bad smell.

Adjective

whiffy (comparative whiffier, superlative whiffiest)

  1. (colloquial) 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.

whiffy meaning in Urdu and Bengali

whiffy in Urdu

بدبودار

whiffy in Bengali

দুর্গন্ধযুক্ত

Synonyms of whiffy

Forms of whiffy

comparativewhiffier
superlativewhiffiest

Origin of whiffy

From whiff + -y.

Words formed from whiffy

Words that rhyme with whiffy

1 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about whiffy

What does whiffy mean?
Whiffy means having a bad smell.
What is whiffy in Urdu?
Whiffy in Urdu is بدبودار. See Whiffy meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is whiffy?
Whiffy is an adjective.

Words near whiffy in the dictionary

  1. whiffletree
  2. whiffletrees
  3. whiffling
  4. whifflings
  5. whiffs
  6. whiffy
  7. whiftier
  8. whiftiest
  9. whifty
  10. whig
  11. Whig histories

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whiffy (page history and authors); whiffy (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); whiffy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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