Quiff vs Quibb - What's the difference?
quiff | quibb |
Quibb has no English definition.
(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.
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.
To arrange (the hair) in such a manner.
(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.
Quibb is often a misspelling of quiff.
Quibb has no English definition.