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編輯發音
編輯詞源 1
編輯本義為「聞」；對比冰島語中表示氣味的詞。
名詞
編輯tiff (複數 tiffs)
- 拌嘴
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- 1997, Haruki Murakami, 譯者 Jay Rubin, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; 再版 New York: Vintage Books, 1998, →ISBN，第 30 頁:
- Something to laugh off, not make a big issue out of. We’d had a little tiff and would have forgotten about it in a couple of days.
- 可以一笑了之，不必大驚小怪。我們只是發生了一點小爭吵，過幾天就會忘掉。
- 2000年9月30日, Guy Browning, 「How to... have a tiff」, 出自 The Guardian[1]:
- At the other extreme, couples who are married with children have heavily disguised tiffs. A man saying in a slightly strained way, 'I'm going to turn the compost', is actually saying, 'And that's all you are, Jean, compost!' Of course, what happens is eventually he apologises, they cry, make love, have another child, get overtired and the tiffing continues.
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- 2013年6月18日, Alexandra Topping, Ben Quinn, 引 Charles Saatchi, 「Charles Saatchi: accepting police caution was better than the alternative」, 出自 The Guardian[2], →ISSN:
- “About a week ago we were sitting outside a restaurant having an intense debate about the children, and I held Nigella [Lawson]'s neck repeatedly while attempting to emphasise my point,” he said. “There was no grip, it was a playful tiff. The pictures are horrific but give a far more drastic and violent impression of what took place. […] ”
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- 一點酒
衍生詞彙
編輯動詞
編輯tiff (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 tiffs，現在分詞 tiffing，一般過去時及過去分詞 tiffed)
- (不及物) 拌嘴
- 近義詞：參見Thesaurus:squabble
- 1846, Walter Savage Landor, untitled:
- She tiff'd at Tim, she ran from Ralph.
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詞源 2
編輯源自中古英語 tiffen、古法語 tiffer、tifer (「打扮」，→法語 attifer)，源自古法蘭克語 *tipfōn、*tippōn (「裝飾」)，可能與原始日耳曼語 *tuppaz (「尖，端」)有關。對比荷蘭語 tippen (「剪髮梢」)、古諾爾斯語 tippa (「尖端」)、英語 tip (名詞)、中古高地德語 zipfen (「蹦跳」)。
動詞
編輯tiff (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 tiffs，現在分詞 tiffing，一般過去時及過去分詞 tiffed)
- (棄用，及物) 打扮，裝飾
- 1768-1777, Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued:
- Is the Miss under a force when she culls among her trinkets with curious toil to tiff herself out in the most engaging manner
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詞源 3
編輯動詞
編輯tiff (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 tiffs，現在分詞 tiffing，一般過去時及過去分詞 tiffed)
- (英屬印度，不及物) 吃午飯
- 1841, The Asiatic journal and monthly register:
- Besides that one to which the permanent residence was attached, Mr. Augustus had several outlaying factories, which he visited from time to time, to superintend the manufacture of his indigo; at all of these he had little bungalows, or temporary abodes, where we tiffed and passed the heat of the day.
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相關詞彙
編輯詞源 4
編輯名詞
編輯tiff (複數 tiffs)
- TIFF的另一種寫法
參考資料
編輯「tiff」，Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary，Springfield, Mass.：G. & C. Merriam，1913年，OCLC 800618302
異序詞
編輯尼日利亞皮欽語
編輯詞源
編輯名詞
編輯tiff
動詞
編輯tiff
- 偷竊
- 2024, 「'Dem tiff my pikin three hours afta I born am for hospital'」, 出自 BBC News Pidgin[3]:
- Dis hospital na one of di biggest hospitals for Lafia, wey get beta security. But one unknown woman allegedly tiff Mrs Wosilat Suleiman pikin.
- This hospital is one of the largest hospitals in Lafia, with good security. However, an unknown woman allegedly stole Mrs. Wosilat Suleiman's child.
這家醫院是拉菲亞最大的醫院之一，治安良好。然而，據稱一名不知名女子偷走了沃西拉特·蘇萊曼夫人的孩子。
- This hospital is one of the largest hospitals in Lafia, with good security. However, an unknown woman allegedly stole Mrs. Wosilat Suleiman's child.