Crossword clues for tiff
tiff
- Minor dispute
- Petty clash
- Petty fight
- Little fight
- Minor falling-out
- JPEG alternative
- Slight quarrel
- Petty squabble
- Bit of bickering
- Minor row
- Minor altercation
- Minor run-in
- Minor dustup
- Minor dust-up
- Little quarrel
- Inconsequential quarrel
- A brief quarrel
- Minor spat
- Minor misunderstanding
- Bit of a scrap
- Small spat
- Row's kin
- Possible result of a pet
- Minor skirmish
- Minor set-to
- Minor scuffle
- Lovers' spat, say
- JPEG or GIF alternative
- It may precede making up
- Domestic disturbance
- Another brief quarrel
- Spat
- Clash
- Bickering
- Short row
- Quarrel
- Bit of a dustup
- Slight fight
- Little slapfest
- Petty quarrel
- Small scrap
- Small quarrel
- Argument
- Dust-up
- One of a pair of spats
- Minor squabble
- Quarrel: it turns very loud
- Quarrel difficult, losing head
- Corpse without a head could be little Barney
- Scrap very loud sex when retired
- Lovers' row
- Leaves note, leading to row
- Row after mother's abandoned dog
- Hard losing initial argument
- Dispute ignoring opening of firm
- Twisted healthy wolf's tail in squabble
- Minor quarrel
- Lovers' quarrel
- Petty argument
- Minor argument
- Brief quarrel
- Minor fight
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
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.]
Liquor; especially, a small draught of liquor. ``Sipping his tiff of brandy punch.''
--Sir W. Scott.A fit of anger or peevishness; a slight altercation or contention. See Tift.
--Thackeray.
Tiff \Tiff\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tiffed; p. pr. & vb. n. Tiffing.] To be in a pet.
She tiffed with Tim, she ran from Ralph.
--Landor.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1727, "outburst of temper," later "petty quarrel" (1754), of uncertain origin; OED suggests imitative, "from the sound of a slight puff of air or gas."
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A small argument; a petty quarrel. 2 Liquor; especially, a small draught of liquor. vb. (context intransitive English) To quarrel. Etymology 2
vb. (context obsolete transitive English) To deck out; to dress.
WordNet
Wikipedia
TIFF, Tiff, or tiff may refer to:
"Tiff" is a song by Nigerian singer-songwriter Simi. Produced by Oscar, the song is regarded as Simi's breakthrough in her music career.
Usage examples of "tiff".
The squadcar that had panicked me was on quite another errand, what looked like a faggot tiff or atrocity on Gay Street.
He stumbled backward blindly, crashed into the restraining wall lining the top of the building, and slumped to a tiffing position.
Blackwood may come as Nemesis, and compel him to regorge any puffing and cramming which Tiff has put into his pocket, and is earnest to have a letter addressed in an influential quarter to prevent this.
The Czechs - like other central and east European countries - mistook a transatlantic tiff for a geopolitical divorce and tried to implausibly capitalize on the yawning rift that opened between the erstwhile allies.
Tiffs between Sharon Hays and her boss and mentor seldom lasted very long.
What few letters were here were all in the same vein: questions about classifications and identifications, tiffs with other scientists over various arcane subjects.
Tianchuan tried to steer them away from this personal tiff, his main concern being to preserve the harmony between the Triads and the Mu Family.
I should find out for myself that there had been something deeper than a mere conjugal tiff between the Mandersons.
And at least she doesn't duck out at the last moment because of a lovers' tiff.
Tiff joined him in a few verses, then bounded friskily away, rolling head over heels through the grass, hollering hysterically and getting away from Chaney’.
But tiffs minor element of speculation helps Palwick develop a very moving story of family dynamics and grief, nudging reality just a bit out of kilter so that we can see more clearly.
Still slightly tiffed at Halmarain's earlier accusations, he wove a red-robed wizard turned renegade into his story.
Both suits showed three tiny holes that—in contrast to the prick Tiffs protective suit had suffered—penetrated through the plastic material.
The Hono who had accompanied Tiffs column, and who had been given the name Nathan by O’Keefe, walked at the head.
The clearer Tiffs mind became the more he became convinced that he had really not heard a voice at all but that his brain had received a telepathic message.