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Quiff vs Quiffed - What's the difference?

quiff | quiffed |

As verbs the difference between quiff and quiffed

is that quiff is to arrange (the hair) in such a manner while quiffed is past tense of quiff.

As a noun quiff

is a puff or whiff, especially of tobacco smoke.

As an adjective quiffed is

arranged in a quiff.

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.
  • quiffed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (quiff)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (of hair) Arranged in a quiff
  • (of a person) Having the hair arranged in a quiff.
  • * 1989 , Peter Tinniswood, Hayballs (page 61)
  • Sharp-quiffed young men in navy-blue blazers and grey flannel trousers.