tiff : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: tiff	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for tiff
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tiff n a quarrel about petty points [syn: bicker, bickering, spat, tiff, squabble, pettifoggery, fuss]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tiff \Tiff\, n. [Originally, a sniff, sniffing; cf. Icel. [?]efr a smell, [?]efa to sniff, Norw. tev a drawing in of the breath, teva to sniff, smell, dial. Sw. t[81]v smell, scent, taste.] 1. Liquor; especially, a small draught of liquor. [bd]Sipping his tiff of brandy punch.[b8] --Sir W. Scott. 2. A fit of anger or peevishness; a slight altercation or contention. See {Tift}. --Thackeray.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tiff \Tiff\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tiffed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tiffing}.] To be in a pet. She tiffed with Tim, she ran from Ralph. --Landor.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tiff \Tiff\, v. t. [OE. tiffen, OF. tiffer, tifer, to bedizen; cf. D. tippen to clip the points or ends of the hair, E. tip, n.] To deck out; to dress. [Obs.] --A. Tucker.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
TIFF {Tagged Image File Format}