yiff

Yiff was 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). In modern use within the furry community, yiff almost exclusively refers either to sex between anthropomorphic animals, or pornographic depictions thereof.

• (General American) enPR: yĭf, IPA^(key): /jɪf/
• Rhymes: -ɪf

yiff (usually uncountable, plural yiffs)

1. (slang, informal) Sex, especially between furries (fictional anthropomorphic animal characters, and/or members of the community surrounding their celebration).
2. (slang, informal) Pornography of or involving furries

   Do you draw yiff?

yiff

1. (onomatopoeic, apocryphal) Representing the bark of a fox (especially while mating).
2. (of a person, informal) To express happiness, to state that something is sexy.

yiff (third-person singular simple present yiffs, present participle yiffing, simple past and past participle yiffed)

1. (transitive and intransitive, slang, informal) To have sex, to mate (said of animals, especially foxes, or people dressed up as animals).
   • 1997 October 17, StarChaser, “What to genocide”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack, Usenet‎, message-ID <3448af39.75668367@169.132.11.13>:

     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 September 22, Locandez, “Hypothetical Question #3: acting natural”, in alt.lifestyle.furry, Usenet‎, message-ID <na.dab87347cd.a40040lyndale@argonet.co.uk>:

     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 23, MegaDog the Nettweiler, “Hypothetical Question #3: acting natural”, in alt.lifestyle.furry, Usenet‎, message-ID <1d3DsMAQZ$J0Ew2R@canismajor.demon.co.uk>:

     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, →ISBN:

     We can tell them how we never stop yiffing and we met at a Starbucks while wearing our suits.

2. (transitive and intransitive, slang, informal) To propose cybersex to someone.

• yiffy
• yiffer
• yiffable

• "Yiff", A Furry Glossary
• Definition of "yiff", Furtopia
• LittleFox’s own explanation of the etymology of "Yiff", Everything2, accessed on 2005-03-30 (bottom of page)

• fyfi, iffy

From Old English ġif.

yiff

1. if
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Lydgate Fall of Princes:

     Yiff ther was lak, thou woldest crie & pleyne.

   • (Can we date this quote?) John Lydgate Fall of Princes:

     And yiff that trust with pryncis wil nat tarie,
     Litil merueile thouh the peeple varie […]

   • c. 1385-1386, Geoffrey Chaucer, Legend of Good Women:

     […] That yiff that god that hevene and erthe made
     Wolde haue a love For beaute and goodness
     And womanhede and trouthe and semelynesse […]

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

From Old English giefan.

yiff

1. Alternative form of yiven
   • 1393, Jean d’Arras Roman de Melusine:

     Another ordre to you yiff I shall,
     A knyght will you mak of full hye degre
     As your brethren ben named ryght roiall.