Yiff
Pronunciation
- IPA: /jɪf/
- Rhymes: -ɪf
Origin
Yiff is part of a range of onomatopoeic words that form a pseudo-language used by the furry role-playing community: yiff, yip, yerf, yaff, yarf, growf, and growlf (in order from most positive connotations to most negative connotations). Yiff meant yes or an exuberant hello!. Later, yiff was assigned a meaning of a sexual proposition, a meaning that had previously been assigned to yipp (a coarse form of yip).
Full definition of yiff
Interjection
Noun
yiff
(usually uncountable; plural yiffs)- (informal) A bark.
- (slang, informal) The act of yiffing.
- 1996-07-14, j.serdy, RFC: A Beginner’s Guide to TinySex on the FurryMuck, Of course the inverse is possible with all these possibilities, and you can be having a yiff with a partner in the room with you and be having a pleasant non-sexual conversation with another remote player through a page-conversation.
- (slang, informal) Pornography of furries (fictional anthropomorphic animal characters).Do you draw yiff?
Verb
- (transitive and intransitive, slang, informal) To have sex, to mate (said of animals, especially foxes, or people dressed up as animals).
- 1997-10-17, StarChaser, What to genocide, Monsters snicker at me, succubi refuse to be seen with me, my dog tries to yiff my leg, shopkeepers say ‘No shirt, no shoes, no service’.
- 1997-09-22, Locandez, Hypothetical Question #3: acting natural, And even if foxes are allowed to yiff more than once, I’d still have to wait for the vixen to come into heat.
- 1997-09-23, MegaDog the Nettweiler, Hypothetical Question #3: acting natural, Well, i’ve witnessed male foxes queueing up to yiff one of my local vixens… repeatedly!
- 2017, Joe Strike , Furry Nation: The True Story of America's Most Misunderstood Subculture , We can tell them how we never stop yiffing and we met at a Starbucks while wearing our suits.
- (transitive and intransitive, slang, informal) To propose cybersex to someone.