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▪ I. † squiff1 Obs.
[ad. F. esquif.]
= skiff n.1 1.
1594R. Ashley tr. Loys le Roy 81 [Marius] hid himself in the marish about Minturnes, and went to sea in a squiffe without victuals. 1620tr. Boccacio 52 b, What with the Tempests violence and ouerlading of the Squiffe, it sunke.
▪ II. squiff2 slang. rare.
[Of uncertain origin: perh. f. squiffy a.]
1. A contemptible person.
1939E. Pound Let. Feb. (1971) 322 Yes, do better than that squiff, that femme ouistiti and lowest degree of animal life (apart from Cambridge Eng. profs).
2. The head. In phr. off (one's) squiff = off (one's) head s.v. head n.1 34.
1960H. Pinter Room 115 Mr. Kidd: I don't know what I think. (He sits.) I think I'm going off my squiff. |