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Quiff vs Quim - What's the difference?

quiff | quim |

As nouns the difference between quiff and quim

is that quiff is a puff or whiff, especially of tobacco smoke while quim is the female genitalia; the vulva.

As a verb quiff

is to arrange (the hair) in such a manner.

As an adjective quim is

affectedly nice, prim.

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.

    • quim

    English

    Etymology 1

    Origin uncertain; perhaps an alteration of queme. The English Dialect Dictionary has a citation of "quim and cosh" from 1723 which it glosses as "intimate and familiar". Compare also quaint, cunt. Derivation from Welsh is sometimes suggested, but the OED notes that this is "unlikely on both semantic and phonological grounds".

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (vulgar, slang) The female genitalia; the vulva.
  • * 1879 , Anonymous, " No. 1:
    • For one day, when amusing herself with this whim
    The carrot it snapped, and part stuck in her quim .
  • * 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses , page 938:
    • Ho! What do I here behold? Were you brushing the cobwebs off a few quims ?
  • * 2005 , Margaret Carter, Maiden Flights (ISBN 1419952595), page 131:
    • Her quim grew wet, ready to welcome it.

    Etymology 2

    . Compare English (m).

    Adjective

  • (Ulster) Affectedly nice, prim.
  • (Ulster) Moving with ease and precision.

    • See also

    * (l)