v. [Imitative; cf. whuff, dial. var. WHIFF (see Eng. Dial. Dict.).] intr. To make a sound as of a forcible blast of breath or wind; trans. to utter with such a sound. Also as int. imitating such a sound. Hence Whuffing vbl. sb. So Whuffle v., intr. in same sense; trans. to drive by blowing forcibiy.
1896. H. G. Wells, Wheels of Chance, xix. 128. He whuffed a contemptuous laugh.
1904. ‘John Oxenham,’ Giant Circumstance, ii. in Chambers’s Jrnl., 10 Dec., 21/1. One of the horses … woke up enough to whuffle the flies out of its nose with an angry snort. Ibid. (1907), Carette of Sark, 322. xxxii. The water began whuffling against the rock walls.
1919. J. J. Bennett, Dover Patrol, 172. ‘Whing! Whuff!’ and another muffled burst comes a minute or so later.
