get a whiff

1. 1.

   smell strongly and intensely

   Synonymsget a noseful

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Questions about get a whiff

What does get a whiff mean?

get a whiff means "smell strongly and intensely".

What is another word for get a whiff?

Close synonyms include get a noseful. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is get a whiff a common word?

get a whiff is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.