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  • I laughed as I leaned back on the wall and knocked a picture frame squiff.

    Mates, Dates: Besties: Cathy Hopkins 2002

  • She stayed away from the real thing because it made her feel loggy and squiff.

    The City Who Fought McCaffrey, Anne 1993

  • "Gus is a good squiff," she said, "but I wondered if he'd ever go."

    The Unicorn Trade Anderson, Poul and Karen 1984

  • I just never quite climb precisely all the way up my intended mountain - the route gets altered, or the mountain's a bit to the left, or some of the heather's squiff, if not actually broccoli when you look at closely.

    Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk 2010

  • I just never quite climb precisely all the way up my intended mountain - the route gets altered, or the mountain's a bit to the left, or some of the heather's squiff, if not actually broccoli when you look at closely.

    Blogposts | guardian.co.uk 2010

  • I just never quite climb precisely all the way up my intended mountain - the route gets altered, or the mountain's a bit to the left, or some of the heather's squiff, if not actually broccoli when you look at closely.

    Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk 2010

  • I just never quite climb precisely all the way up my intended mountain - the route gets altered, or the mountain's a bit to the left, or some of the heather's squiff, if not actually broccoli when you look at closely.

    Culture | guardian.co.uk 2010

  • The only fuckers that are completely squiff are the wisdom teeth.

    unknown title 2008

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  • Spotted in a play I watched - An Inspector Calls.  short for squiffy which was used in the drunk sense.


    the tweets suggest there's a new sense to this word.

    January 8, 2017