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Yiff vs Miff - What's the difference?

yiff | miff |

As an acronym yiff

is young, independent, freedom-minded few (compare yuppie).

As a noun miff is

a small argument, quarrel.

As a verb miff is

(usually used in the passive) to offend slightly.

yiff

English

Interjection

(en interjection)
  • (onomatopoeic, apocryphal) Representing the bark of a fox (especially while mating).
  • (of a person, informal) To express happiness, to state that something is sexy.

    • Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (informal) A bark.
  • (slang, informal) The act of yiffing.
  • * '>citation
    • Of course the inverse is possible with all these possibilities, and you can be having a yiff with a partner in the room with you and be having a pleasant non-sexual conversation with another remote player through a page-conversation.
  • (slang, informal) Pornography of furries (fictional anthropomorphic animal characters).
    • Do you draw yiff ?

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (apocryphal) To bark (said of foxes).
  • (intransitive, of a person, apocryphal) To bark like a fox (especially in a sexual way).
  • (transitive, and, intransitive, slang, informal) To have sex, to mate (said of animals, especially foxes).
  • * '>citation
    • Monsters snicker at me, succubi refuse to be seen with me, my dog tries to yiff my leg, shopkeepers say ‘No shirt, no shoes, no service’.
  • * '>citation
    • And even if foxes are allowed to yiff more than once, I’d still have to wait for the vixen to come into heat.
  • * '>citation
    • Well, i’ve witnessed male foxes queueing up to yiff one of my local vixens… repeatedly!
  • (transitive, and, intransitive, slang, informal) To propose cybersex.

    • Derived terms

    * yiffy * yiffer * yiffable

    References

    * "Yiff", A Furry Glossary * Definition of "yiff", Furtopia * LittleFox’s own explanation of the etymology of "Yiff", Everything2 , accessed on 2005-03-30 (bottom of page)

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    miff

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small argument, quarrel.
  • * 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
    • nay, she would throw it in the teeth of Allworthy himself, when a little quarrel, or miff , as it is vulgarly called, arose between them.
  • * 1872, Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree
    • John Wildway and I had a miff and parted;...
  • A state of being offended.
  • * 1851, T. S. Arthur, Off-Hand Sketches
    • She's taken a miff at something, I suppose, and means to cut my acquaintance.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (usually used in the passive) to offend slightly
  • *
  • * 1824, Sir Walter Scott, Redgauntlet
    • ... answered my Thetis, a little miffed perhaps -- to use the women's phrase -- that I turned the conversation upon my former partner, rather than addressed it to herself.
  • * 1911, James Oliver Curwood, Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police
    • "Don't get miffed about it, man," returned Nome with an irritating laugh.
  • to become slightly offended
  • * 1905, George Barr McCutcheon, Jane Cable
    • She miffed and started to reply, but thought better of it.