yiff

Y4I1F4F4
/jɪf/

interjection

Onomatopeia representing the bark of a fox (especially while mating).

UncommonScrabble 13

Meanings

interjection
  1. Onomatopeia representing the bark of a fox (especially while mating).
  2. informalUsed to express happiness or to state that something is sexually appealing.
nounyiff (usually uncountable, plural yiffs)

plural yiffs

  1. informalslanguncountableusuallyThe bark of a fox.
  2. informalslanguncountableusuallyvulgarSexual 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.

    1996 July 14, j.serdy, “RFC: A Beginner's Guide to TinySex on the FurryMuck”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet)
  3. informalslanguncountableusuallyPornography of or involving furries.

    Do you draw yiff?

verbyiff (third-person singular simple present yiffs, present participle yiffing, simple past and past participle yiffed)

present singular third person yiffs · participle present yiffing · participle past yiffed · past yiffed

  1. informalintransitiveslangTo bark as or similar to a fox.
  2. ambitransitiveinformalrarevulgarOf animals, especially foxes, to mate

    Well, i’ve witnessed male foxes queueing up to yiff one of my local vixens… repeatedly!

    1997 September 23, MegaDog the Nettweiler, “Hypothetical Question #3: acting natural”, in alt.lifestyle.furry (Usenet), message-ID <1d3DsMAQZ$J0Ew2R@canismajor.demon.co.uk>
    2 more examples

    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’.

    1997 October 17, StarChaser, “What to genocide”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet), message-ID <3448af39.75668367@169.132.11.13>

    And even if foxes are allowed to yiff more than once, I’d still have to wait for the vixen to come into heat.

    1997 September 22, Locandez, “Hypothetical Question #3: acting natural”, in alt.lifestyle.furry (Usenet), message-ID <na.dab87347cd.a40040lyndale@argonet.co.uk>
  3. ambitransitiveinformalslangvulgarOf furries, To have sexual intercourse.

    We can tell them how we never stop yiffing and we met at a Starbucks while wearing our suits.

    2017, Joe Strike, Furry Nation: The True Story of America's Most Misunderstood Subculture, →ISBN
    1 more example

    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.

    2012, Joanne Reay, Romeo Spikes
  4. informalintransitiveslangtransitiveTo propose cybersex to someone.

Synonyms & antonyms

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Origin

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.

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Translations

Dutch woef, waf
  • woefbark of a fox
  • wafbark of a fox
  • blaffenbark of a fox
Esperanto jelp, ĵifo
  • jelpbark of a fox
  • ĵifofurry pornography
  • jelpito bark like a fox
  • ĵifiof furries, to have sex
  • ĵifito have cybersex
Finnish turriporno
  • turripornofurry pornography
German bellen, kläffen
  • bellenbark of a fox
  • kläffenbark of a fox
  • Yifffurry pornography
Hungarian yiff
  • yifffurry pornography
Icelandic gagg
  • gaggbark of a fox
Japanese こんこん, イッフ
  • こんこんbark of a fox
  • イッフ (iffu)furry pornography
  • イッフする (iffu-suru)of furries, to have sex
  • イッフする (iffu-suru)to have cybersex
Portuguese au, auau
  • aubark of a fox
  • auaubark of a fox
Russian йифф
  • йифф (jiff)furry pornography
Spanish yip, yiff
  • yipbark of a fox
  • yifffurry pornography
  • yiffearof furries, to have sex
  • yiffearto have cybersex
Swedish yiffa
  • yiffaof furries, to have sex
Ukrainian їф, їфати
  • їф (jif)furry pornography
  • їфати (jifaty)of furries, to have sex
  • їфатися (jifatysja)of furries, to have sex

Rhymes & wordplay

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“yiff.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yiff. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

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