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thif

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Yola

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Etymology

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From Middle English syflen, from Old French sifler.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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thif (present participle thiffin)

  1. blows as wind

References

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 72