giffn.
/ɡɪf/, U.S. /ɡɪf/, Scottish English /ɡɪf/ Scottish.
In phrase the giffs and the gaffs: the givings and the takings, the gains and the losses. Cf. giff-gaff n.
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1821 J. Galt Ann. Parish xliii. 344 I think that the giffs and the gaffs nearly balance one another.
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n.1821- culture-hungry
- culture-loving
- culture-rich
- culture-specific
- culturebound
- cultured
- cultured buttermilk
- cultured pearl
- culturehungry
- cultureless
- cultureloving
- culturer
- culturerich
- cultures
- culturespecific
- culturgen
- culturing
- culturism
- culturist
- culturists
- culturo
- culturo-
- culturological
- culturologically
- culturologist