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tiff1
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noun
informalA petty quarrel, especially one between friends or lovers.
- ‘Joanna had a tiff with her boyfriend’
- ‘Remember that you're too important to deal with employees' petty tiffs.’
- ‘And anyway, I'm sure they were only having a lovers' tiff!’
- ‘What if it was just a tiff between two friends today?’
- ‘I had a little tiff with my friend Lisa after the playwrights left in which I brought Brownies to Lisa's place and invited her to eat one.’
- ‘Even the lovers' tiffs become high farce and the enjoyment is enhanced, not hindered, by the fact that it is performed by an all-male cast.’
- ‘That afternoon, they were having the daddy of lovers' tiffs.’
- ‘‘Ohhh, lovers' tiff,’ Jason said dramatically, interrupting Morgan for the second time that afternoon.’
- ‘Members of the public may have seen something and assumed it was a lovers' tiff.’
- ‘The lovers' tiff seems inconsequential, except that you know it's not.’
- ‘You've got time for one extended joke or one lovers' tiff or one death or whatever.’
- ‘Since the days of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, who were alleged to have detested each other, the media have revelled in stories of spats, tiffs and rows between rival Hollywood stars.’
- ‘Minor industry tiffs aside, it's been an exhilarating 12 months for the band.’
- ‘‘I just expected him to come back, it was a slight tiff, an argument,’ he said.’
- ‘If so, seemingly profound disputes about appearance and reality turn out to be harmless tiffs about words.’
- ‘He also called for a better dispute settlement process for trade tiffs that crop up periodically.’
- ‘Their tiff has all the characteristics of a domestic argument, with Rodriguez cast in the subservient ‘wife’ role.’
- ‘And being a family, I sense that they must experience all of the family tensions, the high times and the low times, the rows, the tiffs and the making up, that are part of normal living.’
- ‘And we play all day and all night and we get dirty faces and we have little tiffs and we call each other names now and then, but it sure is fun as hell to get to know the kids in the neighborhood.’
- ‘Let them know you are friends with both of them and do not want to get involved in their tiffs.’
- ‘Then Marc Antony says, ‘Oh, we had a little tiff!’’
quarrel, squabble, row, argument, fight, contretemps, disagreement, difference of opinion, dissension, falling-out, dispute, disputation, contention, clash, altercation, shouting match, exchange, war of wordsView synonyms
Origin
Early 18th century (denoting a slight outburst of temper): probably of dialect origin.
TIFF2
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noun
ComputingA format for image files.
- ‘a TIFF image’
Origin
1990s acronym from tagged image file format.
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