Meaning

noun a short light gust of air

noun a lefteye flounder found in coastal waters from New England to Brazil

noun a strikeout resulting from the batter swinging at and missing the ball for the third strike

originThe noun is possibly: * partly a variant of Middle English wef, weffe (“bad smell, stench, stink; exhalation; vapour; tendency of something to go bad (?)”) [and other forms], possibly a variant of either: ** waf, waif, waife (“odour, scent”), possibly from waven (“to move to and fro, sway, wave; to stray, wander; to move in a weaving manner; (figuratively) to hesitate, vacillate”), from Old…

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