yiff
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yiff
- /jɪf/
Rhymes with -ɪf
Where it comes from
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.
interjection
- Onomatopeia representing the bark of a fox (especially while mating).
- Used to express happiness or to state that something is sexually appealing.
noun yiffs
- The bark of a fox.
- Sexual intercourse, especially between furries (fictional anthropomorphic animal characters or members of the community surrounding their celebration). FurryMuck yiffs are like real-life yiffs - there is a time and place for everything.
- Pornography of or involving furries. Do you draw yiff?
verb yiffs · yiffing · yiffed
- To bark as or similar to a fox.
- Of animals, especially foxes, to mate 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’.
- Of furries, To have sexual intercourse. 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.
- To propose cybersex to someone.
Translations
Talk about this word "yiff." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/yiff. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. yiff. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/yiff "yiff." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/yiff.Cite this
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title = {yiff},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/yiff},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
