"yiff" meaning in English

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Interjection

IPA: /jɪf/ [General-American] Audio: En-au-yiff.ogg [Australia]
enPR: yĭf Rhymes: -ɪf Etymology: Yiff is part of a range of onomatopoeic words that form a pseudo-language used by the furry role-playing community: yiff, yip, yerf, yaff, yarf, growf, and growlf (in order from most positive connotations to most negative connotations). Yiff means yes or an exuberant hello! Later, yiff was assigned a meaning of a sexual proposition, a meaning that had previously been assigned to yipp (a coarse form of yip). In modern use within the furry community, yiff almost exclusively refers either to sex between anthropomorphic animals, or pornographic depictions thereof. Etymology templates: {{m|en||Yiff}} Yiff, {{m|en||yiff}} yiff, {{m|en|yip}} yip, {{m|en|yerf}} yerf, {{m|en|yaff}} yaff, {{m|en|yarf}} yarf, {{m|en|growf}} growf, {{,}} ,, {{m|en|growlf}} growlf, {{m|en||Yiff}} Yiff, {{m|en|yes}} yes, {{m|en|hello!}} hello!, {{m|en||yiff}} yiff, {{m|en|yipp}} yipp, {{m|en|yip}} yip Head templates: {{en-interj}} yiff
  1. (onomatopoeic, apocryphal) Representing the bark of a fox (especially while mating). Tags: onomatopoeic
    Sense id: en-yiff-en-intj-oggdPTVj
  2. (of a person, informal) To express happiness, to state that something is sexy. Tags: informal, of a person
    Sense id: en-yiff-en-intj-4k0jdSsC

Noun

IPA: /jɪf/ [General-American] Audio: En-au-yiff.ogg [Australia] Forms: yiffs [plural]
enPR: yĭf Rhymes: -ɪf Etymology: Yiff is part of a range of onomatopoeic words that form a pseudo-language used by the furry role-playing community: yiff, yip, yerf, yaff, yarf, growf, and growlf (in order from most positive connotations to most negative connotations). Yiff means yes or an exuberant hello! Later, yiff was assigned a meaning of a sexual proposition, a meaning that had previously been assigned to yipp (a coarse form of yip). In modern use within the furry community, yiff almost exclusively refers either to sex between anthropomorphic animals, or pornographic depictions thereof. Etymology templates: {{m|en||Yiff}} Yiff, {{m|en||yiff}} yiff, {{m|en|yip}} yip, {{m|en|yerf}} yerf, {{m|en|yaff}} yaff, {{m|en|yarf}} yarf, {{m|en|growf}} growf, {{,}} ,, {{m|en|growlf}} growlf, {{m|en||Yiff}} Yiff, {{m|en|yes}} yes, {{m|en|hello!}} hello!, {{m|en||yiff}} yiff, {{m|en|yipp}} yipp, {{m|en|yip}} yip Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} yiff (usually uncountable, plural yiffs)
  1. (slang, informal) Sex, especially between furries (fictional anthropomorphic animal characters, and/or members of the community surrounding their celebration). Tags: informal, slang, uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-yiff-en-noun-5myiTiEV
  2. (slang, informal) Pornography of or involving furries. Tags: informal, slang, uncountable, usually Translations (furry pornography): ĵifo (Esperanto), turriporno (Finnish), Yiff (German), yiff (Hungarian), イッフ (iffu) (Japanese), йифф (jiff) (Russian), yiff [masculine] (Spanish) Translations (sound a fox makes): woef (Dutch), waf (Dutch), blaffen (Dutch), jelp (Esperanto), bellen (German), kläffen (German), gagg [neuter] (Icelandic), こんこん (Japanese), au (Portuguese), auau (Portuguese), yip [feminine, masculine, plural, singular] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-yiff-en-noun-TDLo-SQB Disambiguation of 'furry pornography': 30 70 Disambiguation of 'sound a fox makes': 40 60

Verb

IPA: /jɪf/ [General-American] Audio: En-au-yiff.ogg [Australia] Forms: yiffs [present, singular, third-person], yiffing [participle, present], yiffed [participle, past], yiffed [past]
enPR: yĭf Rhymes: -ɪf Etymology: Yiff is part of a range of onomatopoeic words that form a pseudo-language used by the furry role-playing community: yiff, yip, yerf, yaff, yarf, growf, and growlf (in order from most positive connotations to most negative connotations). Yiff means yes or an exuberant hello! Later, yiff was assigned a meaning of a sexual proposition, a meaning that had previously been assigned to yipp (a coarse form of yip). In modern use within the furry community, yiff almost exclusively refers either to sex between anthropomorphic animals, or pornographic depictions thereof. Etymology templates: {{m|en||Yiff}} Yiff, {{m|en||yiff}} yiff, {{m|en|yip}} yip, {{m|en|yerf}} yerf, {{m|en|yaff}} yaff, {{m|en|yarf}} yarf, {{m|en|growf}} growf, {{,}} ,, {{m|en|growlf}} growlf, {{m|en||Yiff}} Yiff, {{m|en|yes}} yes, {{m|en|hello!}} hello!, {{m|en||yiff}} yiff, {{m|en|yipp}} yipp, {{m|en|yip}} yip Head templates: {{en-verb}} yiff (third-person singular simple present yiffs, present participle yiffing, simple past and past participle yiffed)
  1. (transitive, intransitive, slang, informal) To have sex, to mate (said of animals, especially foxes, or people dressed up as animals). Tags: informal, intransitive, slang, transitive Translations ((of a person) to bark like a fox): jelpi (Esperanto) Translations (to have sex): seks hebben (Dutch), ĵifi (Esperanto), baiser (French), vögeln (German), イッフする (iffu-suru) (Japanese), yiffear (Spanish), yiffa (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-yiff-en-verb-UAZdBEYc Disambiguation of '(of a person) to bark like a fox': 82 18 Disambiguation of 'to have sex': 99 1
  2. (transitive and intransitive, slang, informal) To propose cybersex to someone. Tags: informal, intransitive, slang, transitive Translations (to cybersex, to have cybersex, to sext): ĵifi (Esperanto), イッフする (iffu-suru) (Japanese), yiffear (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-yiff-en-verb-GXDSuZvn Disambiguation of 'to cybersex, to have cybersex, to sext': 31 69
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: yiffer, yiffy

Inflected forms

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          "word": "bellen"
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          "word": "kläffen"
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          "word": "こんこん"
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          "_dis1": "40 60",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "sound a fox makes",
          "word": "au"
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          "_dis1": "40 60",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
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          "word": "auau"
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          "word": "イッフ"
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        {
          "text": "\"He's a furry fan and he's okay,\nHe MUCKs all night and he yiffs all day.\"\n— http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.fan.furry/msg/b65f4574e4ccb21a"
        },
        {
          "text": "\"Well, according to his sig, he waits until it moves before he yiffs it.\" — http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.lifestyle.furry/msg/d5aa241a99efc929"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997-10-17, StarChaser, “What to genocide”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet), message-ID <3448af39.75668367@169.132.11.13>",
          "text": "Monsters snicker at me, succubi refuse to be seen with me, my dog tries to yiff my leg, shopkeepers say ‘No shirt, no shoes, no service’.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997-09-22, Locandez, “Hypothetical Question #3: acting natural”, in alt.lifestyle.furry (Usenet), message-ID <na.dab87347cd.a40040lyndale@argonet.co.uk>",
          "text": "And even if foxes are allowed to yiff more than once, I’d still have to wait for the vixen to come into heat.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997-09-23, MegaDog the Nettweiler, “Hypothetical Question #3: acting natural”, in alt.lifestyle.furry (Usenet), message-ID <1d3DsMAQZ$J0Ew2R@canismajor.demon.co.uk>",
          "text": "Well, i’ve witnessed male foxes queueing up to yiff one of my local vixens… repeatedly!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Joanne Reay, Romeo Spikes",
          "text": "I mean, the urge to yiff is a pretty weird thing to admit to. Not something you can just drop into conversation. But look at them, hundreds of them, all gathered together in a Vegas hotel, exchanging information and experiences, the knowledge of their rare urges ever growing.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Joe Strike, Furry Nation: The True Story of America's Most Misunderstood Subculture",
          "text": "We can tell them how we never stop yiffing and we met at a Starbucks while wearing our suits.",
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          "_dis1": "82 18",
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
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        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "fr",
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          "word": "baiser"
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        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
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          "word": "vögeln"
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
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          "word": "イッフする"
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
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        "(transitive and intransitive, slang, informal) To propose cybersex to someone."
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          "word": "イッフする"
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      "code": "nl",
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      "sense": "sound a fox makes",
      "word": "jelp"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "sound a fox makes",
      "word": "bellen"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "sound a fox makes",
      "word": "kläffen"
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      "code": "is",
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      "sense": "sound a fox makes",
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      "code": "ja",
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      "sense": "sound a fox makes",
      "word": "こんこん"
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "sound a fox makes",
      "word": "au"
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      "code": "pt",
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      "word": "イッフ"
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      "word": "йифф"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "\"He's a furry fan and he's okay,\nHe MUCKs all night and he yiffs all day.\"\n— http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.fan.furry/msg/b65f4574e4ccb21a"
        },
        {
          "text": "\"Well, according to his sig, he waits until it moves before he yiffs it.\" — http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.lifestyle.furry/msg/d5aa241a99efc929"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997-10-17, StarChaser, “What to genocide”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet), message-ID <3448af39.75668367@169.132.11.13>",
          "text": "Monsters snicker at me, succubi refuse to be seen with me, my dog tries to yiff my leg, shopkeepers say ‘No shirt, no shoes, no service’.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997-09-22, Locandez, “Hypothetical Question #3: acting natural”, in alt.lifestyle.furry (Usenet), message-ID <na.dab87347cd.a40040lyndale@argonet.co.uk>",
          "text": "And even if foxes are allowed to yiff more than once, I’d still have to wait for the vixen to come into heat.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997-09-23, MegaDog the Nettweiler, “Hypothetical Question #3: acting natural”, in alt.lifestyle.furry (Usenet), message-ID <1d3DsMAQZ$J0Ew2R@canismajor.demon.co.uk>",
          "text": "Well, i’ve witnessed male foxes queueing up to yiff one of my local vixens… repeatedly!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Joanne Reay, Romeo Spikes",
          "text": "I mean, the urge to yiff is a pretty weird thing to admit to. Not something you can just drop into conversation. But look at them, hundreds of them, all gathered together in a Vegas hotel, exchanging information and experiences, the knowledge of their rare urges ever growing.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Joe Strike, Furry Nation: The True Story of America's Most Misunderstood Subculture",
          "text": "We can tell them how we never stop yiffing and we met at a Starbucks while wearing our suits.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To have sex, to mate (said of animals, especially foxes, or people dressed up as animals)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "transitive",
          "transitive"
        ],
        [
          "intransitive",
          "intransitive"
        ],
        [
          "sex",
          "sex"
        ],
        [
          "mate",
          "mate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive, slang, informal) To have sex, to mate (said of animals, especially foxes, or people dressed up as animals)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "intransitive",
        "slang",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English slang",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To propose cybersex to someone."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cybersex",
          "cybersex"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive and intransitive, slang, informal) To propose cybersex to someone."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "intransitive",
        "slang",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/jɪf/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪf"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-yiff.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/05/En-au-yiff.ogg/En-au-yiff.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/En-au-yiff.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "yĭf"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "(of a person) to bark like a fox",
      "word": "jelpi"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to have sex",
      "word": "seks hebben"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "to have sex",
      "word": "ĵifi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to have sex",
      "word": "baiser"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to have sex",
      "word": "vögeln"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "iffu-suru",
      "sense": "to have sex",
      "word": "イッフする"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to have sex",
      "word": "yiffear"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to have sex",
      "word": "yiffa"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "to cybersex, to have cybersex, to sext",
      "word": "ĵifi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "iffu-suru",
      "sense": "to cybersex, to have cybersex, to sext",
      "word": "イッフする"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to cybersex, to have cybersex, to sext",
      "word": "yiffear"
    }
  ],
  "word": "yiff"
}

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