yiff

Meaning

Intj

1. Representing the bark of a fox (especially while mating).
2. (informal) To express happiness, to state that something is sexy.

Noun

1. (informal,slang) Sex, especially between furries (fictional anthropomorphic animal characters, and/or members of the community surrounding their celebration).
2. (informal,slang) Pornography of or involving furries.

Verb

1. (informal,slang) To have sex, to mate (said of animals, especially foxes, or people dressed up as animals).
2. (informal,slang) To propose cybersex to someone.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/jɪf/

Etymology

Yiff was part of a range of onomatopoeic words from a pseudo-language 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 was 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.