Kif vs Lif - What's the difference?
kif | lif |
A kind of cannabis smoked in Morocco and Algeria, for narcotic or intoxicating effect.
* 1809 , James Grey Jackson, An Account of the Empire of Marocco , VIII:
* 1882 , C. Rollin-Tilton, translating Edmondo de Amicis, Morocco: Its People & Places :
* 1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 80:
* 2000 , (JG Ballard), Super-Cannes , Fourth Estate 2011, p. 52:
*:‘Some taxi driver, a Maghrebian…he suddenly swerved. They smoke kief , you know.’
The trichome of marijuana, a green powdery substance that falls from dry marijuana high in THC and other cannabinoid compounds.
The fibre by which the petioles of the date palm are bound together, from which various kinds of cordage are made.
(Webster 1913)
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As an acronym kif
is (computing|artificial intelligence) knowledge interchange format.As a noun lif is
the fibre by which the petioles of the date palm are bound together, from which various kinds of cordage are made.kif
English
Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l), (l)Noun
(-)- The kief , which is the flower and seeds of the plant, is the strongest, and a pipe of it half the size of a common English tobacco-pipe, is sufficient to intoxicate.
- I perceived the odour of kif , and recognised the voices of Selam the Second, Abd-el-Rhaman, and others; it was an Arab orgie in full swing.
- The trade goods – Persian rugs, salt, muskets, kif – trailed out behind them over the dunes, still lashed to the backs of rotting animals.