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.
   • 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.

From Middle English puf, from Old English pyf.

piff

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

• Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 62