" <Quarrel, altercation, disagreement, contention, controversy, breach, rupture, dispute, dissension, bickering, wrangle, broil, squabble, row, rumpus, ruction, spat, tiff, fuss, jar, feud.

"A tiff's the last thing I'd want with you.

"Look here," Dwight went on persuasively, "hadn't you and he had some little tiff when he told you?" "Nono!

While he is speaking, Crapula, from the effects of over-eating, is continually coughing, which is expressed in the old copies by the words tiff toff, tiff toff, within brackets.

While he is speaking, Crapula, from the effects of over-eating, is continually coughing, which is expressed in the old copies by the words tiff toff, tiff toff, within brackets.

True, they had had their little tiffs, notably on the occasion when Tuppywith what he said was fearless honesty

A tiff occurs, and they shoot their heads off.

Nothing but a passing tiff.

His tiff with his mother renewed all his nervousness and sense of failure.

[Fr.]; division, split, rupture, disruption, division in the camp, house divided against itself, disunion, breach; schism &c (dissent) 489; feud, faction. quarrel, dispute, tiff, tracasserie^, squabble, altercation, barney [Slang], demele, snarl, spat, towrow^, words, high words; wrangling &c v.; jangle, brabble^, cross questions and crooked answers, snip-snap; family jars.

[Fr.], angry mood, taking, pet, tiff, passion, fit, tantrums. burst, explosion, paroxysm, storm, rage, fury, desperation; violence &c 173; fire and fury; vials of wrath; gnashing of teeth, hot blood, high words.

Of course he had his usual tiff with Mary, the nurse, who was very jealous of him because he had so won the love and confidence of the children.

Naturally when you have a great deal of palaver about Betty's husband having deserted her two years ago after a serious tiff, and no word spoken or written since, you rightly guess that the expected new Adjutant, Captain Rymill, will be none other than the missing man.

The story of Vergil's tiff with a soldier, for example, is apparently an inference from Menalcas' experience in Eclogue IX.

She wonders that he makes so much of the little tiff.

None of his tiffs ripened into permanent quarrels, and he seems scarcely to have lost a friend.

They had a little tiff on account of Johnson's Edition of Shakspeare.

These nine diamonds were all won by Sir Launcelot, who presented them to the queen, but Guinevere, in a tiff, flung them into the river which ran by the palace.

Mrs. says the tiffs between my Katy and her husband are exactly like those she had with hers, and Mrs. said very much the same thingafter hearing which, I gave up.

Then it will not matter if we have a tiff.

I'm f-f-rozen s-s-tiff out here.

Whenever we have a tiff, she sets the "Voice from Eden" at me; if she chooses to consider herself ill-used, I am treated to a preserved echo of our marriage vows, and the Bishop's address; when she is in the sulks, I get the congratulations in the vestry; and if ever I grumble at the weekly bills, it's drowned in the "Wedding March!"

We never wranglewe never contradict each otherwe have no tiffs; but we are two and not one.

Inert I watched the Hero sacked For lapses clearly not his own; The midnight murder on the cliff, The wonted ante-nuptial tiff, The orange-blossoms, bored me stiff.

He is plainly getting bored, and when she keeps it up, and begrudges the husbandman more than "two oxen and a cow," he loses his temper, and presumably there is a matrimonial tiff.