Skift vs Skiff - What's the difference?
skift | skiff |
A light dusting of snow.
* 2010 , Mark Parman, A Grouse Hunter’s Almanac: The Other Kind of Hunting (page 84)
A small flat-bottomed open boat with a pointed bow and square stern.
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, title= Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person.
(weather) A light wind/rain/snow, etc.
(slang) Used when referring to anyone (typically rednecks and fishermen) who has a degree of intelligence, but believes they are more than they actually are.
As nouns the difference between skift and skiff
is that skift is {{cx|Appalachian|lang=en}} A light dusting of snow while skiff is a small flat-bottomed open boat with a pointed bow and square stern.As a verb skiff is
to navigate in a skiff.skift
English
Noun
(en noun)- A skift of snow had fallen overnight on the ski trails, and Paul had yet to groom them and erase the tracks in the new snow.
skiff
English
(wikipedia skiff)Etymology 1
From (etyl) esquif, from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff' s rail, close to the stern.}}