ziff
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Is ziff a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) No
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends No
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang, dated) A beard.Examples: "The building style can be described as Stalinist Ceremonial at its most relaxed. That is, the external visual impression is as if some comedian had memorialised the moral fixities of Sir Henry Bolte and decorated the result with the late lamented Joe Stalin's ziff."AustraliaNew-Zealanddatedslang
2. (Australia, New Zealand, slang, dated) A beard.Examples: "Now he wanted to use electric heat, and electricity was found wanting, and he couldn't understand the difference. Surely if a thing would do all that he had made it do, it should be able to boil water—it was hard to think that "stuff" which some old "ziff" had discovered over a hundred years ago was still better for some jobs than electricity."AustraliaNew-Zealanddatedmetonymicallyslang
noun (English)
1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A juvenile thief.Examples: "[…] Y was a Yoxter that eat caper sauce; / Z was a Ziff who was flashed on the horse."UKobsoleteslang
Definition source: Wiktionary