waft

/woft, waaft/

  • verb pass easily or gently through the air.

  • noun 1 a gentle movement of air. 2 a scent carried in the air.

  — ORIGIN originally in the sense escort (a ship), later convey by water: from Low German, Dutch wachten ‘to guard’.

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