piff

• Rhymes: -ɪf

Onomatopoeic

piff

1. An exclamation of annoyance or contempt; pish; pshaw.

piff (third-person singular simple present piffs, present participle piffing, simple past and past participle piffed)

1. (Australia, South Australian and Victorian) To throw something vigorously.

Clipping of piffle

piff (uncountable)

1. (slang) Piffle; nonsense; rubbish.
   • 1924, William Pett Ridge, Leaps and Bounds, page 105:

     "You're talking piff."

   • 1947, Robert Briffault, New Life of Mr. Martin, page 203:

     They say all men have weird notions. People saying he's a rake and all that. Lot of piff.

Unknown. Perhaps a variant of puff suggestive of a blown kiss; or perhaps a shortening of epiphany.

piff (comparative more piff, superlative most piff)

1. (UK, slang) good or attractive.

   You look quite piff today.

   • 2018 November 30, “Bits” (track 10), in Original Sounds‎, performed by Bru-C and Window Kid:

     Quick cash, flip that, now I got big cash. Sit back, sip yak with a next piff yat.

From Middle English puf, from Old English pyf.

• IPA^(key): /pɪɸ/

piff

1. A small puff of wind, as with the mouth.

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 62