tift
See also: Tift
English
Etymology
Compare Norwegian teft (“a scent”). See tiff (“noun”).
Noun
tift (plural tifts)
- (dated) A fit of pettishness, or slight anger; a tiff.
- Blackwood's Magazine
- After all your fatigue you seem as ready for a tift with me as if you had newly come from church.
- Blackwood's Magazine
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tift”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)