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Prominent tuft of hair
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quiff
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"curl or lock of hair over the forehead," 1890, originally a style among soldiers, of unknown origin. Perhaps connected with quiff "a puff or whiff of tobacco smoke" (1831, originally Southern U.S.), held to be a variant of whiff (n.).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a prominent forelock (especially one brushed upward from the forehead)
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. A puff or whiff, especially of tobacco smoke. Etymology 2 n. (context regional slang English) A trick or ploy; a stratagem. (from 19th c.) Etymology 3 n. A hairstyle whereby the forelock is brushed and/or gelled upward, often associated with ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I applied a couple of generous handfuls and styled away until my quiff was cast in bronze. ▪ My favourite of these was a boy of ten or so, called Clint, with a black greasy quiff of hair. ▪ They were devoted to rock and roll, ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The quiff is a hairstyle that combines the 1950s pompadour hairstyle, the 1950s flattop , and sometimes a mohawk . The hairstyle was a staple in the British ' Teddy Boy ' movement, but became popular again in Europe in the early 1980s and faced a resurgence ...
Usage examples of quiff.
She fell sprawling in the dust, and the ring rolled away, to be scooped up by a young lad with a quiff of yellow hair.
With his beaklike nose, his straight line of eyebrow, his shallow forehead, and the quiff of hair which protruded over that forehead, the secretary resembled a crow.
Right then, they were favouring it close cropped at the sides and very long over the top and back, with an elaborately curled quiff hanging down over their foreheads.
He had a DA haircut with extended quiff, wore crepe soles and sometimes forgot to lisp.
At the crucial moment I glanced within to observe my jacketless junior partner sprawled, tie undone, on his sofa beside a scrawny ruffian with a quiff of lime-green hair and attired for some reason in a skintight costume involving zebra stripes and many chains and zippers.
Marck thumbed his cap on to the back of his head, showing a quiff of black hair, while his right hand reached gently for his revolver.
He teased a curly lock or two into a bit of a quiff, struck a pose and did the Townshend windmill.
He had affixed small strips of toilet paper to the cuts on his face, and made some attempt to comb his hair forward and up into an extraordinary quiff to cover his bald patches.
He put cylinder oil on his tousled hair and worked at it until he had achieved the ideal coiffure, with an artistic quiff along his forehead.
The fatboy and the smartmouth and the quiff got away from us that day after the movies.