quiff
IPA: kwˈɪf
noun
- (British dialect) A puff or whiff, especially of tobacco smoke.
- (regional, slang) A trick or ploy; a stratagem.
- (UK) A hairstyle whereby the forelock is brushed and/or gelled upward, often associated with the styles of the 1950s.
- (slang) A young girl, especially as promiscuous; a prostitute.
- (slang) The vulva or vagina.
verb
- (UK) To arrange (the hair) in such a manner.
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Examples of "quiff" in Sentences
- If you're talking about his hair, I think you mean "quiff".
- Years ago, when young men started to sport the "quiff" hairstyle that Tintin is so famous for
- This was, indeed, the Gunner Barling he used to know, with his smooth-shaven chin and neat brown moustache waxed at the ends and characteristic "quiff" decorating his brow.
- The dozy ponce wants women-only shortlists, doesn't have a word to say about immigration, has got more 'quiff' than Blair and not one solitary noteworthy policy but a gazzillion soundbites.
- He wore his cap at the back of his head, so as to exhibit to an admiring world a carefully - cultured curl of the "quiff" variety, which was plastered across his forehead with a great expenditure of grease.
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