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noun
Miff  n.  A petty falling out; a tiff; a quarrel; offense.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Miff" Quotes from Famous Books



... 1805] April the 2nd Friday 1805 a cloudy day rained all the last night we are preparing to Set out all thing nearly ready. The 2d Chief of the 2d Mandan Village took a miff at our not attending to him perticelarely after being here about ten day and moved back to ...
— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al

... rather queer, sometimes. She's taken a miff at something, I suppose, and means to cut my acquaintance. But let her. I shall not distress myself about it; she isn't ...
— Off-Hand Sketches - a Little Dashed with Humor • T. S. Arthur

... sense; but at all events they are so when valued philosophically, and brought out into their circumstantial relations. For instance, we have a French anecdote, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, which ascribes one bloody war to the accident of a little 'miff,' arising between the king and his minister upon some such trifle as the situation of a palace window. Again, from the early part of the eighteenth century, we have an English anecdote, ascribing consequences no less bloody to a sudden feud between ...
— Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers • Thomas De Quincey



Words linked to "Miff" :   anger, vexation, botheration



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