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noun tɪftɪf informal A petty quarrel, especially one between friends or lovers. Joanna had a tiff with her boyfriend Example sentencesExamples - And we play all day and all night and we get dirty faces and we have little tiffs and we call each other names now and then, but it sure is fun as hell to get to know the kids in the neighborhood.
- ‘I just expected him to come back, it was a slight tiff, an argument,’ he said.
- Members of the public may have seen something and assumed it was a lovers' tiff.
- Even the lovers' tiffs become high farce and the enjoyment is enhanced, not hindered, by the fact that it is performed by an all-male cast.
- And anyway, I'm sure they were only having a lovers' tiff!
- Minor industry tiffs aside, it's been an exhilarating 12 months for the band.
- Their tiff has all the characteristics of a domestic argument, with Rodriguez cast in the subservient ‘wife’ role.
- And being a family, I sense that they must experience all of the family tensions, the high times and the low times, the rows, the tiffs and the making up, that are part of normal living.
- The lovers' tiff seems inconsequential, except that you know it's not.
- You've got time for one extended joke or one lovers' tiff or one death or whatever.
- He also called for a better dispute settlement process for trade tiffs that crop up periodically.
- ‘Ohhh, lovers' tiff,’ Jason said dramatically, interrupting Morgan for the second time that afternoon.
- Since the days of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, who were alleged to have detested each other, the media have revelled in stories of spats, tiffs and rows between rival Hollywood stars.
- I had a little tiff with my friend Lisa after the playwrights left in which I brought Brownies to Lisa's place and invited her to eat one.
- That afternoon, they were having the daddy of lovers' tiffs.
- Let them know you are friends with both of them and do not want to get involved in their tiffs.
- Then Marc Antony says, ‘Oh, we had a little tiff!’
- What if it was just a tiff between two friends today?
- Remember that you're too important to deal with employees' petty tiffs.
- If so, seemingly profound disputes about appearance and reality turn out to be harmless tiffs about words.
Synonyms quarrel, squabble, row, argument, fight, contretemps, disagreement, difference of opinion, dissension, falling-out, dispute, disputation, contention, clash, altercation, shouting match, exchange, war of words tussle, conflict, fracas, affray, wrangle, tangle Irish, North American, & Australian donnybrook informal set-to, run-in, shindig, shindy, stand-up, spat, scrap, dust-up British informal barney, slanging match, bunfight, ding-dong, bust-up, ruck Scottish informal rammy North American informal rhubarb archaic broil, miff Scottish archaic threap, collieshangie French archaic tracasserie(s)
Origin Early 18th century (denoting a slight outburst of temper): probably of dialect origin. Rhymes biff, cliff, glyph, if, kif, miff, niff, quiff, riff, skew-whiff, skiff, sniff, spliff, stiff, whiff nountɪftɪf Computing A format for image files.
Origin 1990s: acronym from tagged image file format. nountiftɪf informal A petty quarrel, especially one between friends or lovers. Joanna had a tiff with her boyfriend Example sentencesExamples - And we play all day and all night and we get dirty faces and we have little tiffs and we call each other names now and then, but it sure is fun as hell to get to know the kids in the neighborhood.
- Members of the public may have seen something and assumed it was a lovers' tiff.
- Their tiff has all the characteristics of a domestic argument, with Rodriguez cast in the subservient ‘wife’ role.
- ‘I just expected him to come back, it was a slight tiff, an argument,’ he said.
- The lovers' tiff seems inconsequential, except that you know it's not.
- And anyway, I'm sure they were only having a lovers' tiff!
- That afternoon, they were having the daddy of lovers' tiffs.
- If so, seemingly profound disputes about appearance and reality turn out to be harmless tiffs about words.
- Minor industry tiffs aside, it's been an exhilarating 12 months for the band.
- Let them know you are friends with both of them and do not want to get involved in their tiffs.
- He also called for a better dispute settlement process for trade tiffs that crop up periodically.
- I had a little tiff with my friend Lisa after the playwrights left in which I brought Brownies to Lisa's place and invited her to eat one.
- You've got time for one extended joke or one lovers' tiff or one death or whatever.
- Since the days of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, who were alleged to have detested each other, the media have revelled in stories of spats, tiffs and rows between rival Hollywood stars.
- Remember that you're too important to deal with employees' petty tiffs.
- ‘Ohhh, lovers' tiff,’ Jason said dramatically, interrupting Morgan for the second time that afternoon.
- Even the lovers' tiffs become high farce and the enjoyment is enhanced, not hindered, by the fact that it is performed by an all-male cast.
- Then Marc Antony says, ‘Oh, we had a little tiff!’
- And being a family, I sense that they must experience all of the family tensions, the high times and the low times, the rows, the tiffs and the making up, that are part of normal living.
- What if it was just a tiff between two friends today?
Synonyms quarrel, squabble, row, argument, fight, contretemps, disagreement, difference of opinion, dissension, falling-out, dispute, disputation, contention, clash, altercation, shouting match, exchange, war of words
Origin Early 18th century (denoting a slight outburst of temper): probably of dialect origin. nountiftɪf Computing A format for image files.
Origin 1990s: acronym from tagged image file format. |