miff

Example Sentences

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But then he’ll dig out a joke and do something that might hurt his business — and miff his investors — because, well, he thinks that something is the right thing to do.

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2012

In a pet; in a passion or miff.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, Francis

I don't doubt it: you resemble Achilles, when he and Agamemnon had their miff.

From The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier by Cooke, John Esten

"I didn't say it was a miff," protested Pete.

From The Border Boys Across the Frontier by Goldfrap, John Henry

An' then if he should have a whiff In there, 'twould only breed a miff: He cānt smoke there, vor smoke woon't goo 'Ithin the footy little flue.

From Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by Barnes, William