There’s Tom, now, since this tiff with Mrs. Cat, the scoundrel plays the Grand Turk here!

Something to laugh off, not make a big issue out of. We’d had a little tiff and would have forgotten about it in a couple of days.

At the other extreme, couples who are married with children have heavily disguised tiffs. A man saying in a slightly strained way, 'I'm going to turn the compost', is actually saying, 'And that's all you are, Jean, compost!' Of course, what happens is eventually he apologises, they cry, make love, have another child, get overtired and the tiffing continues.

1768-1777, Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued
Is the Miss under a force when she culls among her trinkets with curious toil to tiff herself out in the most engaging manner

Besides that one to which the permanent residence was attached, Mr. Augustus had several outlaying factories, which he visited from time to time, to superintend the manufacture of his indigo; at all of these he had little bungalows, or temporary abodes, where we tiffed and passed the heat of the day.

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