tift

See also: Tift

English

Etymology

Compare Norwegian teft (“a scent”). See tiff (“noun”).

Noun

tift (plural tifts)

1. (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.

References

• “tift”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Verb

tift (third-person singular simple present tifts, present participle tifting, simple past and past participle tifted)

1. (obsolete) To tiff, argue

Anagrams

• fitt