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▪ I. tiffle, v.1 Obs. exc. dial.|ˈtɪf(ə)l|
Forms: 4 tifle, 5 tiffel, tyffle, 6 tyf(f)ell, 9 tiffle.
[Dim. or freq. of tiff v.1]
†1. trans. To dress up, adorn, deck or trick out (in a trifling or time-wasting way). Obs.
1388Wyclif Ecclus. xxxii. 15 In the our of risyng, tifle [1382 tyff] thee not. Margin, That is, make thee no tariyng in araiyng, ether tiflyng of heeris, as wymmen doon.
2. intr. To busy oneself idly, ‘fiddle’, trifle; to potter about. Now dial.
c1440Promp. Parv. 493/2 Tyfflynge, or vnprofytabylle werkynge (S.,A.,P. tyffynge). 1530Palsgr. 758/1, I tyfell with my fyngers, or busye my selfe longe aboute a thyng.., je tiffe. You have spente two houres to tyffell about this thyng. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Tiffle, to be mightily busy about little or nothing.
Hence ˈtiffler, one who ‘tiffles’; in quot. app. one who dresses up; in mod. dial. a trifler, idler.
c1400Plowman's T. 195 But Antichrist they serven clene, Attyred all in tyrannye;..Tiffelers attyred in trecherye.
▪ II. tiffle, tifle, v.2 Chiefly dial.|ˈtɪf(ə)l|
[app. onomatopœic.]
trans. To disorder, disarrange, entangle, ravel; tiffle out, to ravel out.
1811Willan Words W. Riding in Archæol. (1814) XVII. 161 Tifle, v. to entangle, to mix and knot threads together. 1815Monthly Mag. 1 Mar. 125/1 Essex Dialect, Tiffle, to disarrange. 1825Brockett N.C. Words, Tifle, tyfell, to entangle,..to ruffle. 1880Plain Hints Needlework 121 Tifflings..is used in some parts to describe the ravellings or threads. ‘To tiffle out’, to ravel out or unweave. |
