quiff

Definitions

1. A puff or whiff, especially of tobacco smoke.
   British, dialectal
2. A trick or ploy; a stratagem.
   regional, slang
3. A hairstyle whereby the forelock is brushed and/or gelled upward, often associated with the styles of the 1950s.
   UK
4. A young girl, especially as promiscuous; a prostitute.
   slang
5. The vulva or vagina.
   slang

Equivalents

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Examples

“It was young Mr. Abbott worked that quiff on you, sir.”

“His woolly brown hair shaped into a drooping quiff, he's been sitting poolside all morning, snatching sucks on cigarettes before the waiters can tell⟳ him no, and thinking about reworking some incidental music for the band's gig tomorrow.”

“A bottle of Rio and some chicken and chips / In my fuck-me-up pumps and my Winehouse quiff”

“How would I get⟳ an African toothache when the closest I been to a quiff in over a month is sitting next to one?”

“As for whores—they are sometimes daughters of fine homes peddling their quim and quiff for a thumbnail of cocaine or a tot of rot-gut whiskey.”

“Jane was drying herself in the bedroom, holding the bath towel behind her shoulders, her small breasts and childlike nipples flushed from the power jet, her quiff a barely visible thread.”

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