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.
Meanings
Onomatopeia representing the bark of a fox (especially while mating).
(informal) Used to express happiness or to state that something is sexually appealing.
Translations (11)
is gagg (bark of a fox) · pt au (bark of a fox) · es yip (bark of a fox) · ja こんこん (bark of a fox) · nl waf (bark of a fox) · de bellen (bark of a fox) · pt auau (bark of a fox) · nl blaffen (bark of a fox) · nl woef (bark of a fox) · eo jelp (bark of a fox) · de kläffen (bark of a fox)
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.
Meanings
(informal, slang, uncountable, usually) The bark of a fox.
(informal, slang, uncountable, usually, vulgar) Sexual 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):
(informal, slang, uncountable, usually) Pornography of or involving furries.
Do you draw yiff?
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hu yiff (furry pornography) · ru йифф (furry pornography) · fi turriporno (furry pornography) · uk їф (furry pornography) · de Yiff (furry pornography) · eo ĵifo (furry pornography) · ja イッフ (furry pornography) · es yiff (furry pornography)
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.
Meanings
(informal, intransitive, slang) To bark as or similar to a fox.
(ambitransitive, informal, rare, vulgar) Of animals, especially foxes, to mate
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>:
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>:
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>:
(ambitransitive, informal, slang, vulgar) Of 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:
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:
(informal, intransitive, slang, transitive) To propose cybersex to someone.
uk їфатися (of furries, to have sex) · eo jelpi (to bark like a fox) · uk їфати (of furries, to have sex) · eo ĵifi (to have cybersex) · ja イッフする (of furries, to have sex) · ja イッフする (to have cybersex) · es yiffear (to have cybersex) · sv yiffa (of furries, to have sex) · es yiffear (of furries, to have sex) · eo ĵifi (of furries, to have sex)