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Tiff   /tɪf/   Listen
noun
Tiff  n.  
1.
Liquor; especially, a small draught of liquor. "Sipping his tiff of brandy punch."
2.
A fit of anger or peevishness; a slight altercation or contention. See Tift.


verb
Tiff  v. t.  To deck out; to dress. (Obs.)


Tiff  v. i.  (past & past part. tiffed; pres. part. tiffing)  To be in a pet. "She tiffed with Tim, she ran from Ralph."





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"Tiff" Quotes from Famous Books



... thank you. Let's don't talk dress any more, or we'll have a tiff before we get to the moving picture studio, and there are some long and trying ...
— The Moving Picture Girls at Rocky Ranch - Or, Great Days Among the Cowboys • Laura Lee Hope
... down sometimes of evenings," quoth Doctor Wood; "for, though no book-learned man, Mr. Hayes, look you, you are a man of the world, and I can't abide the society of boys. There's Tom, now, since this tiff with Mrs. Cat, the scoundrel plays the Grank Turk here! The pair of 'em, betwixt them, have completely gotten the upper hand of you. Confess that you are beaten, Master Hayes, ...
— Catherine: A Story • William Makepeace Thackeray
... and I have had another little—Tiff, shall I call it? It came not up to a quarrel. Married people would have enough to do, if they were to trouble their friends every time they misunderstood one another. And now a word or two of other people: not ...
— The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) • Samuel Richardson
... no!" Nina Ivanovna said quickly, terribly alarmed. "Calm yourself—it's just because you are in low spirits. It will pass, it often happens. Most likely you have had a tiff with Andrey; but lovers' quarrels always end ...
— The Schoolmaster and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... heartily. "Now you shall be Kitty, and we will—-we will shake hands and be friends, and eat an apple together. Kitty and I always do that when we have had a tiff." ...
— Hildegarde's Neighbors • Laura E. Richards


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