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Moff vs Miff - What's the difference?

moff | miff |

As nouns the difference between moff and miff

is that moff is while miff is a small argument, quarrel.

As a verb miff is

(usually used in the passive) to offend slightly.

moff

English

Noun

(-)
  • (archaic) A thin silk stuff made in Caucasia.
    • (Webster 1913)

    miff

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small argument, quarrel.
  • * 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
    • 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.
  • * 1872, Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree
    • John Wildway and I had a miff and parted;...
  • A state of being offended.
  • * 1851, T. S. Arthur, Off-Hand Sketches
    • She's taken a miff at something, I suppose, and means to cut my acquaintance.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (usually used in the passive) to offend slightly
  • *
  • * 1824, Sir Walter Scott, Redgauntlet
    • ... 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.
  • * 1911, James Oliver Curwood, Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police
    • "Don't get miffed about it, man," returned Nome with an irritating laugh.
  • to become slightly offended
  • * 1905, George Barr McCutcheon, Jane Cable
    • She miffed and started to reply, but thought better of it.