TIFFLE VERB 1. to dress up, to adorn, to deck or trick out in a trifling or time-wasting way - a1425 obs. 2. to busy oneself idly, to ‘fiddle’, to trifle; to potter about - c1440 obs. exc. Eng. dial. 3. to disorder, to disarrange, to entangle, to ravel - 1811 chiefly Eng. dial. ETYMOLOGY for verb 1. - diminutive of tiff (vb. to attire, to dress, to deck out [obs.]) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE a1425 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...And in the our of risyng tifle thee not; forsothe renne thou bifore first in to thin hous, and there clepe thou thee to answer, and there pleie thou..." From: The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal Books - John Wycliffe
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