Meaning of Tiff | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of TIFF (acronym of tagged image file format).
   alt-of, informal
2. A small draught or sip of liquor (especially diluted or poor quality liquor) or punch.
   archaic, countable, informal, obsolete, slang
3. The way in which one's body or hair is decked out or dressed.
   archaic, informal, obsolete, rare, slang
4. Acronym of tagged image file format.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
5. An image stored in the TIFF format.
6. A diminutive of the female given name Tiffany.
7. A (generally small) argument or disagreement; a petty quarrel, a spat.
   informal
8. A brief outburst or period of bad temper; a snit; also (rare) any brief outburst (for example, of laughter).
   archaic, informal
9. Liquor, especially diluted or poor quality liquor.
   archaic, informal, obsolete, slang, uncountable
10. A file using TIFF file format

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Examples

“My Lord and I have had another little—Tiff, ſhall I call it? It came not up to a quarrel. Married people vvould have enough to do, if they vvere to trouble their friends every time they miſunderſtood one another.”

“There's Tom, now, since this tiff with Mrs. Cat, the scoundrel plays the Grand Turk here!”

“[T]he blithe young couple were a pleasant sight to see, as they twirled merrily round and round, feeling more friendly than ever after their small tiff.”

“I had lived with her all this time, unaware how much she hated these things. In themselves they were trivial. Stupid. Something to laugh off, not make a big issue out of. We'd had a little tiff and would have forgotten about it in a couple of days.”

“Lovers' tiffs are very amusing in that new lovers expect their little universe to be 100% perfect. […] At the other extreme, couples who are married with children have heavily disguised tiffs. A man saying in a slightly strained way, 'I'm going to turn the compost', is actually saying, 'And that's all you are, Jean, compost!' Of course, what happens is eventually he apologises, they cry, make love, have another child, get overtired and the tiffing continues.”

“"About a week ago we were sitting outside a restaurant having an intense debate about the children, and I held Nigella [Lawson]'s neck repeatedly while attempting to emphasise my point," he said. "There was no grip, it was a playful tiff. The pictures are horrific but give a far more drastic and violent impression of what took place.[…]"”

“These were the days before Elon Musk's tiff with a Delaware judge raised the prospect of the federalization of corporate law.”

“[A]s if / Returning homevvards in a furious Tiff; / Your Hoſt declares, he's ſorry at his Heart, / And humbly acts the penitential Part.”

“Wilhelmina […] answered his romances and him with tiffs of laughter, in a prettily fleeting manner.”

“Come, Captain, let not your noble Courage be caſt dovvn; vvhat ſay you to a Glaſs of vvhite VVine, or a Tiff of Punch, by VVay of VVhet?”

“"Good wife," said Skriegh, gathering up his mouth, and sipping his tiff of brandy punch with great solemnity […]”

“By dint of drinking acid tiff, as above mentioned, and smoking segars, in which I am no novice, my Public are to be informed, that I gradually drank and smoked myself into a certain degree of acquaintance with un homme comme il faut [a proper man], one of the few fine old specimens of nobility who are still to be found in France; […]”

“Did you mark the beau Tiff of his VVig, vvhat a deal of Pains he took to toſs it back, vvhen the very VVeight thereof vvas like to dravv him from his Seat?”

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