Tiff vs Angry - What's the difference?
tiff | angry |
A small argument; a petty quarrel.
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Liquor; especially, a small draught of liquor.
* Sir Walter Scott
Displaying or feeling anger.
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(said about a wound or a rash) Inflamed and painful.
Dark and stormy, menacing.
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As a noun tiff
is a small argument; a petty quarrel.As a verb tiff
is to quarrel.As an acronym TIFF
is tagged image file format.As a proper noun Tiff
is a nickname for Tiffany.As an adjective angry is
displaying or feeling anger.tiff
English
Etymology 1
Originally, a sniff, sniffing; compare Icelandic word for a smell.Noun
(en noun)- There’s Tom, now, since this tiff with Mrs. Cat, the scoundrel plays the Grand Turk here!
- sipping his tiff of brandy punch.
Synonyms
* See alsoEtymology 2
Middle English tiffen, (etyl) tiffer, (tifer), to bedizen; compare D. (tippen) to clip the points or ends of the hair, English tip (noun).Anagrams
* English intransitive verbsangry
English
Adjective
(er)- The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm.
- Angry clouds raced across the sky.
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