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▪ I. tift, n.1 Sc. and north. dial.|tɪft|
[History obscure; ? related to tift ppl. a. and tift v.1]
Condition, order; condition of mind, mood, humour.
1717Ramsay Elegy on Lucky Wood vii, Beef, dry fish, or cheese, Which kept our..health in tift. 1722Wodrow Hist. Ch. Scot. II. iii. iv. §4. 140 The King's Horse being in good Tift. 1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. i. i, I'm in tift to hear you play and sing. 1824Mactaggart Gallovid. Encycl. 449 A poet's muse is in tift when she sings well; corn also is in tift when it is dry, viz., in tift to lead. 1904in Eng. Dial. Dict. cited Cumberld., to Cheshire, and n.-w. Derbysh.
▪ II. tift, n.2 Sc. and dial.
[app. var. of tiff n.3]
1. A slight fit of ill-humour or offendedness; a petty quarrel or disagreement: = tiff n.3 1, 2.
1751Smollett Per. Pic. (1779) IV. xc. 83 It [his intimacy] was now chequered with occasional tifts. 1761F. Sheridan Sidney Bidulph III. 42 She supposed he married in a tifft, upon my refusal of him. 1808E. Sleath Bristol Heiress III. 81 My wife and I have often a bit of a tift. 1887P. McNeill Blawearie 61 The last time we met—Bob and I—we had a ‘tift’, ye ken what that is.
2. A puff, breath, or slight blast (of wind).
a1765Ld. Thomas, etc. xvii. in Child Ballads iii. (1885) 183/1 Four and twanty siller bells Wer a' tyed till his mane, And yae tift o the norland wind, They tinkled ane by ane.
▪ III. † tift, ppl. a. Sc. Obs.
[Goes with tift v.1]
Prepared, ready; set in order; provided, furnished.
13..Cursor M. 1761 (Cott.) Quen al was tift [v.rr. wroȝt, don] was þar na bide, Þe stormes ras on ilka side. Ibid. 5089 Mas your gere al redi tift, Your seckes sal i fil o gift. Ibid. 24807 Wit trissor son his scipp was tift. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xviii. (Egipciane) 870, I cane fond To þat flume.., And wesche in yt bath handis & face; Syne come agane, & with schryfte And contryt hart mad me tyfte.
▪ IV. tift, v.1 Obs. exc. dial.
[Origin uncertain; in quots. c 1425, 1600 it appears to be a var. of tiff v.1; but in the rest it may be a different word: cf. tift n.1, tift ppl. a.]
trans. To prepare, make ready, put in order; to dress.
13..Cursor M. 19425 (Cott.) Steuen tifted him al bun [so Gött.; Fairf. & Tr. made him redi bun], And þan bigan a gret sarmun. c1425St. Mary of Oignies i. i. in Anglia VIII. 135/34 Tressynge and tifting of here [= hair]. 1600Abp. Abbot Exp. Jonah 591 Beholding a woman most curiously trimmed, and exquisitely tiffted up. 1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 32 There are many thinges belonge to tiftinge of hay; as spreadinge,..turninge, rakinge, and cockinge. Ibid. 33 If it [hay] bee eyther wette or greene when yow cocke it, yow are not to lette it stande above three dayes afore yow throwe it out againe and gette it well tifted [pr. tifled] in. Ibid. 61 For tiftinge of a newe hive. 1790Morison Poems 25 (Jam.) The fidler tifted ilka string. 1876Whitby Gloss. s.v., ‘Tifted up’, cleansed and put into order.
▪ V. tift, v.2 Sc. and dial.
[var. of tiff v.2]
trans. To drink, quaff; = tiff v.2 (also intr.).
1722W. Hamilton Wallace iii. i. 18 They..tifted canty wine. 1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 101 The siller stoups, on heigh upliftit, Were tootit in a whip, and tiftit. 1833M. Scott Tom Cringle x. (1859) 203 The Captain was stowing his cargo with great zeal and tifting away at the fluids as became an honest sailor.
▪ VI. tift, v.3 Obs. or dial.
[f. tift n.2]
intr. To have a tiff; = tiff v.3
1777Sheridan Sch. Scand. i. ii, We tifted a little going to church, and fairly quarrelled before the bells had done ringing. |