quiff
UK/kwɪf/
quiff noun: a puff or whiff, especially of tobacco smoke.
Noun (1)
quiff (plural quiffs)
Noun (2)
quiff (plural quiffs)
Noun (3)
quiff (plural quiffs)
- A hairstyle whereby the forelock is brushed and/or gelled upward, often associated with the styles of the 1950s.
- His woolly brown hair shaped into a drooping quiff, he's been sitting poolside all morning, snatching sucks on cigarettes before the waiters can tell him no, and thinking about reworking some incidental music for the band's gig tomorrow.2012 September 2, Tom Lamont, The Observer
- A bottle of Rio and some chicken and chips / In my fuck-me-up pumps and my Winehouse quiff2025, “Young”, performed by Little Simz
Verb
quiff (third-person singular simple present quiffs, present participle quiffing, simple past and past participle quiffed)
- To arrange (the hair) in such a manner.
Noun (4)
quiff (plural quiffs)
- A young girl, especially as promiscuous; a prostitute.
- How would I get an African toothache when the closest I been to a quiff in over a month is sitting next to one?1949, John O'Hara, A Rage to Live, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 193
- The vulva or vagina.
- As for whores—they are sometimes daughters of fine homes peddling their quim and quiff for a thumbnail of cocaine or a tot of rot-gut whiskey.1970, Stephen Longstreet, Nell Kimball: Her Life as an American Madam, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 145
- Jane was drying herself in the bedroom, holding the bath towel behind her shoulders, her small breasts and childlike nipples flushed from the power jet, her quiff a barely visible thread.2000, J. G. Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 120
quiff meaning in Indonesian
quiff in Indonesian
- hairstyle
- jambul
Forms of quiff
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | quiffs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | quiffs |
| present participle | quiffing |
| past participle | quiffed |
| past | quiffed |
Origin of quiff
Variant form of whiff.
Unknown.
Uncertain; perhaps a variant of coif.
Words formed from quiff
Words that rhyme with quiff
Questions about quiff
- What does quiff mean?
- Quiff means a puff or whiff, especially of tobacco smoke.
- What is quiff in Indonesian?
- Quiff in Indonesian is jambul. See Quiff meaning in Indonesian.
- What part of speech is quiff?
- Quiff can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce quiff?
- Quiff is pronounced /kwɪf/ (UK).
- What is the plural of quiff?
- The plural of quiff is quiffs.
Words near quiff in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: quiff (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: En-au-quiff.ogg.
Cite this entry: “quiff.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/quiff. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.