piff
See also: Piff
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɪf
Etymology 1 edit
Interjection edit
piff
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
piff (third-person singular simple present piffs, present participle piffing, simple past and past participle piffed)
- (Australia, South Australian and Victorian) To throw something vigorously.
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
piff (uncountable)
- (slang) Piffle; nonsense; rubbish.
- 1924, William Pett Ridge, Leaps and Bounds, page 105:
- "You're talking piff."
- 1947, Robert Briffault, New Life of Mr. Martin, page 203:
- They say all men have weird notions. People saying he's a rake and all that. Lot of piff.
Etymology 4 edit
Unknown. Perhaps a variant of puff suggestive of a blown kiss; or perhaps a shortening of epiphany.
Adjective edit
piff (comparative more piff, superlative most piff)
- (UK, slang) good or attractive.
- You look quite piff today.
Yola edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English puf, from Old English pyf.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
piff
References edit
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 62