Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Quiff
A quiff is ever so cute. It's a curl lying over a forehead. Just like the nursery rhyme. I'll be looking for opportunities to use that word as soon as possible. The invented meanings were just as wonderful. I found it extremely tricky choosing my top three, though, as each sounded exactly right. The poll voters didn't have any trouble picking a winner, however. It was Realityjunkie. Well done, RJ.
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A quiff is a where an intended witty remark creates a deathly silence because it is too near the mark.
"Hey, lady, I bet you paid for two air tickets so you could board the plane first!" the excited tourist quipped cheerfully. He realised he'd quiffed when he spotted she had hidden what could only have been a hippopotamus in her slacks.
To quaff is to drink heartily. To quiff is to quaff in but small measure.
Quiffing is the habit of young children to question everything. This can range from the very simple to the highly complicated: 'Why is the sun hot?'; 'Why does Father Christmas come down the chimney?'; 'Why does daddy love you?'
While the answer frequently appears obvious and easy to understand to adults, explaining the answer to children's quiffs is often difficult and usually results in further quiffing.
Quiff: n A short, breathy grunt of indignation uttered when one loses an argument, is incredulous, or disdainful of the speaker.
"My darling, I'm not having an affair! Look, here is my taxi receipt from work, my credit card bills, and my cell phone records."
The wife took the papers and let out a quiff.
A quiff is a coif gone wrong. It usually starts with a huge bottle of hairspray and a million bobby-pins, and almost always ends with the words "I can't go out looking like this!" and hours of inconsolable tears.
A quiff is a "silent but deadly" passing of gas.
"Mary thought she could get away with letting out some air at the party, unfortunately she quiffed and everyone around started sniffing the air. Mary tried to hold her composure, but had to leave the room to hide her embarassment."
The quiff is a rather ineffectual nocturnal bird which lives most of it's life hidden in holes in trees. It hardly ever eats and has no natural predators. It has one call (quiff) which it makes only when startled, which is rare as hardly any other living creatures are aware of it's existence.
A quiff is a term used in archery to describe an arrow that doesn't fly properly, originally because the feathers got damaged. In olden days, quiffs were feared, especially when firing arrows with poison tips, because they often ended up causing casualties on one's own side. Even today, quiffs still account for a lot of archery related injuries.
A quiff is an old Royal Navy term for a swig of pink gin. Typically in places like Gibraltar during the war in their "navy whites" often as a respite from running the gauntlet with the U-boats.
"Hey" the admiral was heard to say "don't quiff that too fast, sailor, remember you're on the dog watch in the morning".
quiff - the short snorting noise made in an effort to supress vomiting.
Bev laughed quietly in the next room. Phil was really trying to help, doing his best to change little Elijah's diaper, but his quiffing, and his supressed wretching was proving he was a typical male poo wimp.
Quiff (n): promise for a good cause
quiff (v): To quiff is to quintessentially promise donation 'if and only if' it is for a good cause.
"When the students asked for donations to the flood relief camp, I quiffed them good dough."
"It's a quiff from our company to help serve the HIV victims of Asia."
A quiff is the wiggly movement a cat makes with its hindquarters when it is about to make a running jump and pounce on a mouse.
A quiff is questionable but interesting information, such as that found in most tabloids.
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
http://stephen-has-spoken.blogspot.com/
A quiff is a sniff gone wrong. For example if you were sniffing the contents of a jar to see what was in it, but got a large quiff of pepper. Or someone says "can you smell fuel?" and you take a big quiff of foul air. The worst quiff I have seen was when a friend of mine stuck his nose into the bottom of an old wine barrel. He burned out the back of his nose and made his eyes water.
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