Sc. and dial. [var. of TIFF v.2] trans. To drink, quaff; = TIFF v.2 (also intr.).
1722. W. Hamilton, Wallace, III. i. 18. They tifted canty wine.
1819. W. Tennant, Papistry Stormd (1827), 101. The siller stoups, on heigh upliftit, Were tootit in a whip, and tiftit.
1833. M. Scott, Tom Cringle, x. (1859), 203. The Captain was stowing his cargo with great zeal and tifting away at the fluids as became an honest sailor.