Irk vs Miff - What's the difference?
irk | miff |
to irritate; annoy; bother
A small argument, quarrel.
* 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
* 1872, Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree
A state of being offended.
* 1851, T. S. Arthur, Off-Hand Sketches
(usually used in the passive) to offend slightly
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* 1824, Sir Walter Scott, Redgauntlet
* 1911, James Oliver Curwood, Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police
to become slightly offended
* 1905, George Barr McCutcheon, Jane Cable
In lang=en terms the difference between irk and miff
is that irk is to irritate; annoy; bother while miff is to become slightly offended.As verbs the difference between irk and miff
is that irk is to irritate; annoy; bother while miff is (usually used in the passive) to offend slightly.As a noun miff is
a small argument, quarrel.irk
English
Verb
(en verb)- It irks me to do all this work and have someone destroy it.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* irksomeAnagrams
* English transitive verbs ----miff
English
Noun
(en noun)- nay, she would throw it in the teeth of Allworthy himself, when a little quarrel, or miff , as it is vulgarly called, arose between them.
- John Wildway and I had a miff and parted;...
- She's taken a miff at something, I suppose, and means to cut my acquaintance.
Verb
(en verb)- ... answered my Thetis, a little miffed perhaps -- to use the women's phrase -- that I turned the conversation upon my former partner, rather than addressed it to herself.
- "Don't get miffed about it, man," returned Nome with an irritating laugh.
- She miffed and started to reply, but thought better of it.