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Quaff vs Quiff - What's the difference?

quaff | quiff |

As verbs the difference between quaff and quiff

is that quaff is to drink or imbibe with vigour or relish; to drink copiously; to swallow in large draughts while quiff is to arrange (the hair) in such a manner.

As nouns the difference between quaff and quiff

is that quaff is the act of quaffing, a deep draught while quiff is a puff or whiff, especially of tobacco smoke.

quaff

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To drink or imbibe with vigour or relish; to drink copiously; to swallow in large draughts.
  • * Shakespeare
    • quaffed off the muscadel
  • * Milton
    • They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet / Quaff immortality and joy.

    Quotations

    {{timeline, 1500s=1594, 1600s=1667, 1800s=1845 1852}} * 1594 — Shakespeare, i 2 *: Please ye we may contrive this afternoon, / And quaff carouses to our mistress' health * 1667 — Book V *: They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet *: Quaff immortality and joy... * 1845 — *: Quaff', oh ' quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore! * 1852 — *: Even while quaffing the third draught of the Fountain of Youth, they were almost awed by the expression of his mysterious visage.

    Antonyms

    * (wine terminology) food pairing

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of quaffing, a deep draught.
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    • Synonyms

    * chug * gulp * swig * See also

    quiff

    English

    Etymology 1

    Variant form of (whiff).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A puff or whiff, especially of tobacco smoke.

    • Etymology 2

    Origin unknown.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (regional, slang) A trick or ploy; a stratagem.
  • *1933 , (John Masefield), The Bird of Dawning :
  • *:It was young Mr. Abbott worked that quiff on you, sir.

    • Etymology 3

    Origin uncertain; perhaps a variant of (coif).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hairstyle whereby the forelock is brushed and/or gelled upward, often associated with the styles of the 1950s.
  • *2012 , Tom Lamont, The Observer , 2 Sep 2012:
  • *:His woolly brown hair shaped into a drooping quiff , he's been sitting poolside all morning, snatching sucks on cigarettes before the waiters can tell him no, and thinking about reworking some incidental music for the band's gig tomorrow.

    • Verb

  • To arrange (the hair) in such a manner.

    • Etymology 4

    Probably variant of .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) A young girl, especially as promiscuous; a prostitute.
  • *1949 , (w, John O'Hara), Rage to Live :
  • *:How would I get an African toothache when the closest I been to a quiff in over a month is sitting next to one?
  • (slang) The vulva or vagina.
  • *2000 , (JG Ballard), Super-Cannes , Fourth Estate 2011, p. 120:
  • *:Jane was drying herself in the bedroom, holding the bath towel behind her shoulders, her small breasts and childlike nipples flushed from the power jet, her quiff a barely visible thread.