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See also: Tift
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compare Norwegian teft (“a scent”). See tiff (“noun”).
Noun[edit]
tift (plural tifts)
- (dated) A fit of pettishness, or slight anger; a tiff.
- 1818, Blackwood's Magazine
- After all your fatigue you seem as ready for a tift with me as if you had newly come from church.
- 1818, Blackwood's Magazine
References[edit]
- “tift”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.