tiff

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The incidents of the Love-tiff are arranged artistically, though in the Spanish taste; the plot is too complicated, and the ending very unnatural.

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  1. noun A fit of irritation.
  2. noun A petty quarrel.
  3. intransitive verb To quarrel.

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  • The fact is we had had a bit of a tiff, and you arrived before we had time to make it up. —  Ladies' Bane - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 22
  • I am pleased to report that Nellie McKay is like a bird -- no, I am not confusing her with Nelly Furtado -- in that she is flying away from Columbia Records, which shelved her second album in January during a nasty artist-label tiff. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • AIV has support for all basic image formats including tiff, wmf and emf. —  20 Newest Free Software Downloads - Freeware Files.com
  • We arrived to find that we had been misplaced in the list once again (much to Jarrad's delight) and had a bit of a tiff, said sorry, hugged and made up and set on our way to begin the debauchery. —  Muti
  • Create a tall Photoshop project and stick your credits on that, import the tiff or jpeg into FCP and keyframe a move over it. —  Discussions: Message List - root
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Etymologies (7)

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  1. Origin unknown.

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  1. Origin obscure.
  2. from Middle English tiffen, tifen, from Old French tiffer, tifer, also attiffer, atifer, French attifer, dress, adorn; cf. Dutch tippen, clip the points or ends of the hair (cf. French attifet, ornament of the head): see tip, v.
  3. from tiff, v.
  4. Prob. in part a reduction of tift, but ult. from Norwegian teva, sniff, smell, = Icelandic thefa, sniff; cf. Norwegian tev, täv, töv, a drawing in of the breath, the wind or scent of an animal, = Swedish dial. täv = Danish dial. tæv, smell, scent, = Icelandic thefr, smell. Hence tiff, n., tiffing, tiffin. Cf. tift.
  5. A reduction of tift, n., or from the related tiff: see tiff, v. Cf. tift, n. Cf. also tip.
  6. Prob. orig. ‘sniff’ in anger, and so ult. identical with tiff, from Norwegian teva = Icelandic thefa, sniff: see tiff.
 

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