Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Tift \Tift\, n. [Cf. Norw. teft a scent. See {Tiff}, n.]
   A fit of pettishness, or slight anger; a tiff.

         After all your fatigue you seem as ready for a tift
         with me as if you had newly come from church.
                                                  --Blackwood's
                                                  Mag.