Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
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name
Acronym of tagged image file format.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Qualifier: computer graphics file format
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Synonyms: none provided
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name
A diminutive of the female given name Tiffany.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A (generally small) argument or disagreement; a petty quarrel, a spat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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Synonyms: tift, miff
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noun
A brief outburst or period of bad temper; a snit; also (rare) any brief outburst (for example, of laughter).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, informal
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noun
Alternative letter-case form of TIFF (acronym of tagged image file format).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, informal
Qualifier: computer graphics file format
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
A small draught or sip of liquor (especially diluted or poor quality liquor) or punch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable, informal, obsolete, slang
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Synonyms: tift, whiff
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Liquor, especially diluted or poor quality liquor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, informal, obsolete, slang, uncountable
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Synonyms: tift
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noun
The way in which one's body or hair is decked out or dressed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, informal, obsolete, rare, slang
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Synonyms: getup, outfit
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An image stored in the TIFF format.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computer-graphics, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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Synonyms: tif
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A file using TIFF file format
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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Synonyms: .tif, .tiff
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noun
Alternative form of TIFF.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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Synonyms: none provided
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verb
To be involved in a (generally small) argument or disagreement; to squabble.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, intransitive
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Synonyms: spat, tift, squabble, barney, bicker, quarrel, wrangle, argue, tiff, quibble, row, pettifog
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Synonym of tiffin (“to eat a (light) midday meal or snack; to have lunch, to lunch”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: British, India, informal, intransitive
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Synonyms: tiffin
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To drink (liquor), especially slowly or in small amounts; to sip.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, informal, obsolete, slang, transitive
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verb
To deck out or dress (someone or oneself, or their body or hair).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, informal, obsolete, reflexive, slang, transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
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verb
To deck out or dress one's body or hair.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, informal, intransitive, obsolete, slang
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noun
a quarrel about petty points
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: bicker, bickering, spat, squabble, pettifoggery, fuss
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: quarrel, wrangle, row, words, run-in, dustup
History
Shortened from Tiffany.
The origin of the noun is unknown; it is possibly originally dialectal and may be onomatopoeic, representing the sound of a small puff of air or gas. The verb is derived from the noun.
See TIFF.
The origin of the noun is unknown; it may be onomatopoeic, representing the sound of liquor being sipped. The verb is derived from the noun.
From Middle English tiffen, tif, tiffe (“to adorn, dress up; to arrange (a hairstyle); to disguise”), from Old French tifer, tiffer (“to adorn, dress up”) (modern French attifer (“to deck out”)), from Frankish *tipfōn, *tippōn (“to decorate”), possibly related to Proto-Germanic *tuppaz (“plait of hair, tuft; summit, top”) (see the further etymology at that entry). The noun is derived from the verb. cognates * Dutch tippen (“to clip the points or ends of the hair”) * English tip (noun) * Middle High German zipfen (“to bob; to flutter; to frisk, prance, skip; to sashay”) * Old Norse tippa (“point, tip”)
Probably a back-formation from or clipping of tiff(in) (“(light) midday meal or snack, luncheon”).
Across languages
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