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Verb

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wafting

  1. present participle and gerund of waft

Noun

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wafting (plural waftings)

  1. An instance of wafting; the action of something that wafts.
    • 2007 January 31, Bryan Miller, “In a Yale Dining Hall, Independent Study at the Microwave”, in New York Times[1]:
      The following afternoon they fired up an ancient wood-frame charcoal grill and laid on the pig, suffusing the quad with the sweet waftings of barbecue — that is, until the grill caught fire and collapsed.