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English
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Noun
taff (plural taffs)
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French
Pronunciation
Noun
taff m (plural taffs)
German
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Etymology
Borrowed from English tough. Perhaps influenced by older toff (“good, cool, well-dressed”), from Yiddish טובֿ (tof), from Hebrew טוֹב (tov, “good”). Compare Dutch tof and English toff. Doublet of zäh.
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Adjective
taff (strong nominative masculine singular taffer, comparative taffer, superlative am taffsten)
- (colloquial) tough, robust, hard-bitten, assertive, socially apt and self-assured, quick-witted
- Enrique Iglesias über seine Lebensgefährtin: “Ich wünschte, ich wäre nur halb so taff und kämpferisch.”
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