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quiff (n.)
"curl or lock of hair over the forehead," 1890, originally a style among soldiers, of unknown origin. Perhaps connected with
quiff
"a puff or whiff of tobacco smoke" (1831, originally Southern U.S.), held to be a variant of
whiff
(n.).
