Tiff

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tiff \Tiff\, n. [Originally, a sniff, sniffing; cf. Icel. ?efr a
     smell, ?efa to sniff, Norw. tev a drawing in of the breath,
     teva to sniff, smell, dial. Sw. t["u]v smell, scent, taste.]
     1. Liquor; especially, a small draught of liquor. "Sipping
        his tiff of brandy punch." --Sir W. Scott.
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     2. A fit of anger or peevishness; a slight altercation or
        contention. See {Tift}. --Thackeray.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tiff \Tiff\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tiffed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Tiffing}.]
     To be in a pet.
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           She tiffed with Tim, she ran from Ralph. --Landor.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tiff \Tiff\, v. t. [OE. tiffen, OF. tiffer, tifer, to bedizen;
     cf. D. tippen to clip the points or ends of the hair, E. tip,
     n.]
     To deck out; to dress. [Obs.] --A. Tucker.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  tiff
       n : a quarrel about petty points [syn: {bicker}, {bickering}, {spat},
            {squabble}, {pettifoggery}, {fuss}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  59 Moby Thesaurus words for "tiff":
     altercate, altercation, argument, bicker, bickering, blood feud,
     brawl, broil, caterwaul, contention, controversy, differ,
     difference of opinion, disagreement, dispute, donnybrook,
     donnybrook fair, dudgeon, embroilment, fall, falling-out, ferment,
     feud, fight, flite, fliting, fracas, fret, fume, fuss, have words,
     high dudgeon, huff, imbroglio, join issue, logomachy, miff,
     misunderstanding, open quarrel, pet, pique, polemic, quarrel,
     rhubarb, row, run-in, set to, sharp words, slanging match, snarl,
     spar, spat, squabble, stew, strife, tussle, vendetta, words,
     wrangle
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  TIFF
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  TIFF
       
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