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{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2012 September 2, Tom Lamont, The Observer:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A hairstyle whereby the forelock is brushed and/or gelled upward, often associated with the styles of the 1950s."
],
"links": [
[
"forelock",
"forelock"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(UK) A hairstyle whereby the forelock is brushed and/or gelled upward, often associated with the styles of the 1950s."
],
"tags": [
"UK"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/kwɪf/",
"tags": [
"UK",
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[kʰw̥ɪf]",
"tags": [
"UK",
"US"
]
},
{
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/En-au-quiff.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪf"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "perčem",
"sense": "hairstyle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "перчем"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "hairstyle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tupè"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "hairstyle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "kuif"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "hairstyle",
"word": "otsatöyhtö"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "hairstyle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "topete"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "hairstyle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Tolle"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "blorít",
"sense": "hairstyle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "בְּלוֹרִית"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "hairstyle",
"word": "jambul"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "hairstyle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "topete"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "hairstyle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "poupa"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "hairstyle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tupé"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "hairstyle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "copete"
}
],
"word": "quiff"
}
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"Rhymes:English/ɪf/1 syllable",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Catalan translations",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with Galician translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Hebrew translations",
"Terms with Indonesian translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"en:Genitalia",
"en:Hair",
"en:Prostitution"
],
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{
"word": "quiffed"
}
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"args": {
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},
"expansion": "Uncertain",
"name": "unc"
}
],
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{
"form": "quiffs",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "quiffing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "quiffed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
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"form": "quiffed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
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}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"British English"
],
"glosses": [
"To arrange (the hair) in such a manner."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(UK) To arrange (the hair) in such a manner."
],
"tags": [
"UK"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/kwɪf/",
"tags": [
"UK",
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[kʰw̥ɪf]",
"tags": [
"UK",
"US"
]
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪf"
}
],
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}
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"Rhymes:English/ɪf/1 syllable",
"en:Genitalia",
"en:Hair",
"en:Prostitution"
],
"etymology_number": 4,
"etymology_text": "Probably variant of coif (“vulva”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "quiffs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "quiff (plural quiffs)",
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],
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"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations"
],
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{
"ref": "1949, John O'Hara, A Rage to Live, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 193:",
"text": "How would I get an African toothache when the closest I been to a quiff in over a month is sitting next to one?",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A young girl, especially as promiscuous; a prostitute."
],
"links": [
[
"prostitute",
"prostitute"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) A young girl, especially as promiscuous; a prostitute."
],
"tags": [
"slang"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1970, Stephen Longstreet, Nell Kimball: Her Life as an American Madam, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 145:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2000, J. G. Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 120:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The vulva or vagina."
],
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[
"vulva",
"vulva"
],
[
"vagina",
"vagina"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) The vulva or vagina."
],
"tags": [
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/kwɪf/",
"tags": [
"UK",
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[kʰw̥ɪf]",
"tags": [
"UK",
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "En-au-quiff.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f0/En-au-quiff.ogg/En-au-quiff.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/En-au-quiff.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪf"
}
],
"word": "quiff"
}
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