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語源 1

Variant form of whiff.

名詞

quiff (複数形 quiffs)

1. (英国用法 方言) A puff or whiff, especially of tobacco smoke.

語源 2

Origin unknown.

名詞

quiff (複数形 quiffs)

1. (regional, slang) A trick or ploy; a stratagem. [from 19th c.]
   • 1933, John Masefield, The Bird of Dawning:

     It was young Mr. Abbott worked that quiff on you, sir.

語源 3

Origin uncertain; perhaps a variant of coif.

名詞

quiff (複数形 quiffs)

1. (UK) A hairstyle whereby the forelock is brushed and/or gelled upward, often associated with the styles of the 1950s. [from 19th c.]
   • 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.

動詞

quiff (三人称単数 現在形 quiffs, 現在分詞 quiffing, 過去形および過去分詞形 quiffed)

1. (UK) To arrange (the hair) in such a manner. [from 20th c.]

派生語

• quiffed

語源 4

Probably variant of coif (“vulva”).

名詞

quiff (複数形 quiffs)

1. (slang) A young girl, especially as promiscuous; a prostitute. [from 20th c.]
   • 1949, John O'Hara, A Rage to Live, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 193:

     How would I get an African toothache when the closest I been to a quiff in over a month is sitting next to one?

2. (slang) The vulva or vagina. [from 20th c.]
   • 1970, Stephen Longstreet, Nell Kimball: Her Life as an American Madam, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 145:

     As for whores—they are sometimes daughters of fine homes peddling their quim and quiff for a thumbnail of cocaine or a tot of rot-gut whiskey.

   • 2000, J. G. Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 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.