Miff vs False - What's the difference?
miff | false |
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
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun miff
is a small argument, quarrel.As a verb miff
is (usually used in the passive) to offend slightly.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.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.
false
English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}