subs. (general).—A satisfactory result: spec. an end obtained by means not strictly conventional. As verb. = to do well; to jog along merrily. Also (tailors’) TO QUIFF IN THE PRESS = to change a breast pocket from one side to the other; TO QUIFF THE BLADDER = to conceal baldness: cf. QUIFF (military) = a small flat curl on the temple.
Verb. (venery).—To copulate: see RIDE.—GROSE (1785).
c. 1709. Old Ballad [D’URFEY, Wit and Mirth; or Pills to Purge Melancholy (1709), iv. 18]. By QUIFFING with Cullies three Pound she had got.
