[? Same word as prec.] A name for various flat-fishes or flounders, as the sail-fluke or mary-sole, Rhombus megastoma, the smear-dab, Pleuronectes microcephalus.
1713. Jago, in Ray’s Synopsis Piscium, 163. Passer Cornubiensis asper, magno oris hiatu. A Whiff.
1836. Yarrell, Brit. Fishes, II. 231. The Whiff. The Carter, Cornwall.
1867. Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Whiff, the Rhombus cardina, a passable fish of the pleuronect genus.
1873. T. Gill, Catal. Fishes E. Coast N. Amer., 17. Citharichthys microstomus…. Whiff.
