miff

miffnoun/mɪf/

• 1

  A small argument; a quarrel.

  • nay, she would throw it in the teeth of Allworthy himself, when a little quarrel, or miff, as it is vulgarly called, arose between them.
  • Well, to cut a long story short, by-long and by-late, John Wildway and I had a miff and parted; and lo and behold, the coming man came!
• 2

  A state of being offended.

  • She's taken a miff at something, I suppose, and means to cut my acquaintance.

miffverb/mɪf/

• 1

  To offend slightly.

  • he [our Interpreter Shabonah] will not agree to work let our Situation be what it may nor Stand a guard, and if miffed with any man he wishes to return when he pleases
  • 1824, Sir Walter Scott, Redgauntlet […] answered my Thetis, a little miffed perhaps -- to use the women's phrase — that I turned the conversation upon my former partner, rather than addressed it to herself.
• 2

  To become slightly offended.

  • I amble on; yet, though I know not why, / So sad I am!—but should a friend and I / Grow cool and miff, O! I am very sad!
  • 1905, George Barr McCutcheon, Jane Cable She miffed and started to reply, but thought better of it.