quiff

noun

1. (British, dialectal)A puff or whiff, especially of tobacco smoke.
2. (regional, slang)A trick or ploy; a stratagem.

   “It was young Mr. Abbott worked that quiff on you, sir.”

3. (UK)A hairstyle whereby the forelock is brushed and/or gelled upward, often associated with the styles of the 1950s.

   “His woolly brown hair shaped into a drooping quiff, he's been sitting poolside all morning, snatching sucks on cigarettes before the waiters can tell him no, and thinking about reworking some incidental music for the band's gig tomorrow.”

   “A bottle of Rio and some chicken and chips / In my fuck-me-up pumps and my Winehouse quiff”

4. (slang)A young girl, especially as promiscuous; a prostitute.

   “How would I get an African toothache when the closest I been to a quiff in over a month is sitting next to one?”

5. (slang)The vulva or vagina.

   “As for whores—they are sometimes daughters of fine homes peddling their quim and quiff for a thumbnail of cocaine or a tot of rot-gut whiskey.”

   “Jane was drying herself in the bedroom, holding the bath towel behind her shoulders, her small breasts and childlike nipples flushed from the power jet, her quiff a barely visible thread.”

verb

1. (UK)To arrange (the hair) in such a manner.