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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Cf. Norw.

teft

a scent. See

Noun.

]

A fit of pettishness, or slight anger; a tiff.

After all your fatigue you seem as ready for a

tift

with me as if you had newly come from church.

Blackwood’s Mag.

tift ‎(plural tifts)

(dated) A fit of pettishness, or slight anger; a tiff.
- Blackwood's Magazine
  After all your fatigue you seem as ready for a tift with me as if you had newly come from church.