Yola edit

Etymology edit

From Middle English syflen, from Old French sifler.

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

thif (present participle thiffin)

  1. blows as wind

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 72