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Diff vs Yiff - What's the difference?

diff | yiff |

As nouns the difference between diff and yiff

is that diff is abbreviation of lang=en while yiff is a bark.

As verbs the difference between diff and yiff

is that diff is to run a diff program on (files or items) so as to produce a description of the differences between them, as for a patch file while yiff is to bark (said of foxes).

As a proper noun diff

is a program, historically part of the Unix operating system, which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.

As an interjection yiff is

representing the bark of a fox (especially while mating).

As an acronym YIFF is

young, independent, freedom-minded few (compare yuppie.

diff

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (slang)
    • A peach and an apricot? What's the diff ?
  • (computing) Any program which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.
  • (computing) The output of a diff program. A diff file.
  • * 2004 , , Great Hackers , Essay:
    • I didn't want to waste people's time telling them things they already knew. It's more efficient just to give them the diffs .
  • (medicine) : differential of types of white blood cell in a complete blood count.
  • (slang)
  • (rock climbing) A difficult route.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (computing) To run a diff program on (files or items) so as to produce a description of the differences between them, as for a patch file.
  • (computing) To compare two files or other objects, manually or otherwise.

    • Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (computing) A program, historically part of the Unix operating system, which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.

    • See also

    * (computing ) patch

    Related terms

    * (computing ) diff file

    yiff

    English

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (onomatopoeic, apocryphal) Representing the bark of a fox (especially while mating).
  • (of a person, informal) To express happiness, to state that something is sexy.

    • Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (informal) A bark.
  • (slang, informal) The act of yiffing.
  • * '>citation
    • Of course the inverse is possible with all these possibilities, and you can be having a yiff with a partner in the room with you and be having a pleasant non-sexual conversation with another remote player through a page-conversation.
  • (slang, informal) Pornography of furries (fictional anthropomorphic animal characters).
    • Do you draw yiff ?

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (apocryphal) To bark (said of foxes).
  • (intransitive, of a person, apocryphal) To bark like a fox (especially in a sexual way).
  • (transitive, and, intransitive, slang, informal) To have sex, to mate (said of animals, especially foxes).
  • * '>citation
    • Monsters snicker at me, succubi refuse to be seen with me, my dog tries to yiff my leg, shopkeepers say ‘No shirt, no shoes, no service’.
  • * '>citation
    • And even if foxes are allowed to yiff more than once, I’d still have to wait for the vixen to come into heat.
  • * '>citation
    • Well, i’ve witnessed male foxes queueing up to yiff one of my local vixens… repeatedly!
  • (transitive, and, intransitive, slang, informal) To propose cybersex.

    • Derived terms

    * yiffy * yiffer * yiffable

    References

    * "Yiff", A Furry Glossary * Definition of "yiff", Furtopia * LittleFox’s own explanation of the etymology of "Yiff", Everything2 , accessed on 2005-03-30 (bottom of page)

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