Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to yiff
Participle: yiffed
Gerund: yiffing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | yiff |
| you | yiff |
| he;she;it | yiffs |
| we | yiff |
| you | yiff |
| they | yiff |
Perfect
| I | have yiffed |
| you | have yiffed |
| he;she;it | has yiffed |
| we | have yiffed |
| you | have yiffed |
| they | have yiffed |
Past
| I | yiffed |
| you | yiffed |
| he;she;it | yiffed |
| we | yiffed |
| you | yiffed |
| they | yiffed |
Pluperfect
| I | had yiffed |
| you | had yiffed |
| he;she;it | had yiffed |
| we | had yiffed |
| you | had yiffed |
| they | had yiffed |
Future
| I | will yiff |
| you | will yiff |
| he;she;it | will yiff |
| we | will yiff |
| you | will yiff |
| they | will yiff |
Future Perfect
| I | will have yiffed |
| you | will have yiffed |
| he;she;it | will have yiffed |
| we | will have yiffed |
| you | will have yiffed |
| they | will have yiffed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | yiff |
| you | yiff |
| he;she;it | yiff |
| we | yiff |
| you | yiff |
| they | yiff |
Perfect
| I | have yiffed |
| you | have yiffed |
| he;she;it | have yiffed |
| we | have yiffed |
| you | have yiffed |
| they | have yiffed |
Imperfect
| I | yiffed |
| you | yiffed |
| he;she;it | yiffed |
| we | yiffed |
| you | yiffed |
| they | yiffed |
Pluperfect
| I | had yiffed |
| you | had yiffed |
| he;she;it | had yiffed |
| we | had yiffed |
| you | had yiffed |
| they | had yiffed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would yiff |
| you | would yiff |
| he;she;it | would yiff |
| we | would yiff |
| you | would yiff |
| they | would yiff |
Perfect
| I | would have yiffed |
| you | would have yiffed |
| he;she;it | would have yiffed |
| we | would have yiffed |
| you | would have yiffed |
| they | would have yiffed |
Imperative
| you | yiff |
| we | Let's yiff |
| you | yiff |
Verbs conjugated like 'yiff'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'yiff'
biff,
diff,
hiff,
jiff,
miff,
niff,
piff,
riff,
tiff,
baff,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Yiff was part of a range of onomatopoeic words from a pseudolanguage called Foxish used by the furry role-playing community, ostensibly created by a user named LittleFox or Foxen around 1990. Other terms used by this community included yip, yerf, yaff, yarf, growf, and growlf. Yiff originally meant yes or an exuberant hello. According to LittleFox, the sexual connotations of yiff were influenced by yipp (derived from yip), which originally held these sexual connotations. By 1992, yiff had been assigned a meaning of a sexual proposition, and in modern use within the furry subculture, yiff exclusively refers either to sex between anthropomorphic animals, or pornographic depictions thereof.
Sample Sentences
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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 October 17, StarChaser, “What to genocide”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:]
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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 September 22, Locandez, “Hypothetical Question #3: acting natural”, in alt.lifestyle.furry (Usenet), message-ID :]
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Well, i’ve witnessed male foxes queueing up to yiff one of my local vixens… repeatedly! [1997 September 23, MegaDog the Nettweiler, “Hypothetical Question #3: acting natural”, in alt.lifestyle.furry (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:]
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I mean, the urge to yiff is a pretty weird thing to admit to. Not something you can just drop into conversation. But look at them, hundreds of them, all gathered together in a Vegas hotel, exchanging information and experiences, the knowledge of their rare urges ever growing. [2012, Joanne Reay, Romeo Spikes:]
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We can tell them how we never stop yiffing and we met at a Starbucks while wearing our suits. [2017, Joe Strike, Furry Nation: The True Story of America's Most Misunderstood Subculture, →ISBN:]