1.
[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.
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She tiffed with Tim, she ran from Ralph. --Landor.
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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.
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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.
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2. A fit of anger or peevishness; a slight altercation or
contention. See Tift. --Thackeray.
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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.
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