Fracas vs Tiff - What's the difference?
fracas | tiff | Related terms |
A noisy disorderly quarrel, fight, brawl, disturbance or scrap.
* 1989 , , Faber 1999, paperback edition, p. 16,
* 1964 , , Vintage Books 2002, paperback edition, p. 37,
A small argument; a petty quarrel.
* 1840 , William Makepeace Thackeray, Catherine: A Story
Liquor; especially, a small draught of liquor.
* Sir Walter Scott
As nouns the difference between fracas and tiff
is that fracas is a noisy disorderly quarrel, fight, brawl, disturbance or scrap while tiff is a small argument; a petty quarrel.As a verb tiff is
to quarrel.As an acronym TIFF is
tagged image file format.As a proper noun Tiff is
a nickname for Tiffany.fracas
English
Noun
(en-noun)- And I recall also some years ago, Mr Rayne, who travelled to America as valet to Sir Reginals Mauvis, remarking that a taxi driver in New York regularly addressed his fare in a manner which if repeated in London would end in some sort of fracas , if not in the fellow being frogmarched to the nearest police station.
- The Oregon-Northern California region had lost much of its population during the fracas of 1980; it had been heavily hit by Red Chinese guided missiles, and of course the clouds of fallout had blanketed it in the subsequent decade.
Synonyms
* brouhaha * kerfuffle * meleetiff
English
Etymology 1
Originally, a sniff, sniffing; compare Icelandic word for a smell.Noun
(en noun)- There’s Tom, now, since this tiff with Mrs. Cat, the scoundrel plays the Grand Turk here!
- sipping his tiff of brandy punch.