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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a quarrel about petty points;
[syn: bicker, bickering, spat, tiff, squabble, pettifoggery, fuss]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Tiff \Tiff\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tiffed; p. pr. & vb. n. Tiffing.] To be in a pet. [1913 Webster] She tiffed with Tim, she ran from Ralph. --Landor. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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["u]v smell, scent, taste.] 1. Liquor; especially, a small draught of liquor. "Sipping his tiff of brandy punch." --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] 2. A fit of anger or peevishness; a slight altercation or contention. See Tift. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

tiff n 1: a quarrel about petty points [syn: bicker, bickering, spat, tiff, squabble, pettifoggery, fuss]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):

Tagged Image File Format TIFF (TIFF) A file format used for still-image bitmaps, stored in tagged fields. Application programs can use the tags to accept or ignore fields, depending on their capabilities. While TIFF was designed to be extensible, it lacked a core of useful functionality, so that most useful functions (e.g. lossless 24-bit colour) requires nonstandard, often redundant, extensions. The incompatibility of extensions has led some to expand "TIFF" as "Thousands of Incompatible File Formats". Compare GIF, PNG, JPEG. (1997-10-11)