Sc. and dial. [app. var. of TIFF sb.3]
1. A slight fit of ill-humor or offendedness; a petty quarrel or disagreement: = TIFF sb.3 1, 2.
1751. Smollett, Per. Pic. (1779), IV. xc. 83. It [his intimacy] was now chequered with occasional tifts.
1761. Mrs. F. Sheridan, Sidney Bidulph, III. 42. She supposed he married in a tifft, upon my refusal of him.
1808. Eleanor Sleath, Bristol Heiress, III. 81. My wife and I have often a bit of a tift.
1887. P. M’Neill, Blawearie, 61. The last time we met—Bob and I—we had a ‘tift,’ ye ken what that is.
2. A puff, breath, or slight blast (of wind).
a. 1765. Ld. Thomas, etc., xvii., in Child, Ballads, III. (1885), 183/1. Four and twanty siller bells Wer a’ tyed till his mane, And yae tift o the norland wind, They tinkled ane by ane.
