Tift vs Tint - What's the difference?
tift | tint |
A fit of pettishness, or slight anger; a tiff.
A slight coloring.
A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)
A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.
A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
(intransitive) To shade, to color.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
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As a noun tift
is a fit of pettishness, or slight anger; a tiff.As a verb tint is
.tift
English
Noun
(en noun)- After all your fatigue you seem as ready for a tift with me as if you had newly come from church. — Blackwood's Magazine.
tint
English
Etymology 1
Alteration of earlier tinct, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.
Verb
citation, passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.}}