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teff
English
Alternative forms
- tef
Etymology
Borrowed from Amharic ?? (??ff).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?f/
Noun
teff (countable and uncountable, plural teffs)
- A love grass, Eragrostis tef, with small seeds, grown as a cereal and for forage in Ethiopia and parts of Arabia.
- The fine grain of this plant.
Coordinate terms
- (Cereals) cereal; barley, fonio, maize/corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, teff, triticale, wheat
See also
- injera
Translations
Further reading
- teff on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “teff”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
Italian
Etymology
From Amharic ?? (??ff).
Noun
teff m (invariable)
- teff
Spanish
Noun
teff m (plural teffs)
- teff
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tiff
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?f/
- Rhymes: -?f
Etymology 1
Originally, a sniff, sniffing; compare Icelandic word for a smell.
Noun
tiff (plural tiffs)
- A small argument; a petty quarrel.
- 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)
- (intransitive) To quarrel.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:squabble
- 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)
- (obsolete, transitive) To deck out; to dress.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of A. Tucker to this entry?)
Etymology 3
Verb
tiff (third-person singular simple present tiffs, present participle tiffing, simple past and past participle tiffed)
- (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.
- 1841, The Asiatic journal and monthly register
Related terms
- tiffin
Anagrams
- fift
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