yiff
/jɪf/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.04 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
intj
Onomatopeia representing the bark of a fox (especially while mating).
noun
Sexual intercourse, especially between furries (fictional anthropomorphic animal characters or members of the community surrounding their celebration).
Informal; Slang; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "FurryMuck yiffs are like real-life yiffs - there is a time and place for everything."
- "Do you draw yiff?"
- "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’."
- "And even if foxes are allowed to yiff more than once, I’d still have to wait for the vixen to come into heat."
- "Well, i’ve witnessed male foxes queueing up to yiff one of my local vixens… repeatedly!"
- "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."
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.