different between pats vs tiff

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pæts/

Noun

pats

1. plural of pat

Verb

pats

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pat

Anagrams

• APTS, APTs, ATSP, PSAT, PTAs, PTSA, TAPs, TPAs, Taps, ap'ts, apts, past, spat, stap, taps

Dutch

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

Interjection

pats

1. clap, crash

Noun

pats m or f (plural patsen)

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French

Noun

pats m

1. plural of pat

Latvian

Pronoun

pats m

1. self

Declension

Synonyms

• pati f

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pótis (“master, ruler; husband”).

Noun

pàts m stress pattern 4

1. husband
2. oneself/himself/myself/yourself only singular masculine

References

• Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 346

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?f/
• Rhymes: -?f

Etymology 1

Originally, a sniff, sniffing; compare Icelandic word for a smell.

Noun

tiff (plural tiffs)

1. A small argument; a petty quarrel.
2. Liquor; especially, a small draught of liquor.

Translations

Verb

tiff (third-person singular simple present tiffs, present participle tiffing, simple past and past participle tiffed)

1. (intransitive) To quarrel.

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   • 1846, Walter Savage Landor, untitled

     She tiff'd at Tim, she ran from Ralph.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English tiffen, Old French tiffer, tifer ("to bedizen"; > Modern French attifer), from Frankish *tipf?n, *tipp?n (“to decorate”), perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *tuppaz (“top, tip”). Compare Dutch tippen (“to clip the points or ends of the hair”), Old Norse tippa (“point, tip”), English tip (noun), Middle High German zipfen (“to prance; skip; sashay; bob; flutter; frisk”).

Verb

tiff (third-person singular simple present tiffs, present participle tiffing, simple past and past participle tiffed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To deck out; to dress.

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Etymology 3

Verb

tiff (third-person singular simple present tiffs, present participle tiffing, simple past and past participle tiffed)

1. (British India, intransitive) To have lunch.
   • 1841, The Asiatic journal and monthly register

     Besides that one to which the permanent residence was attached, Mr. Augustus had several outlaying factories, which he visited from time to time, to superintend the manufacture of his indigo; at all of these he had little bungalows, or temporary abodes, where we tiffed and passed the heat of the day.

Related terms

• tiffin

Anagrams

• fift