Green’s Dictionary of Slang

to have a petty argument; to banter.

1756		Memoirs of an Oxford Scholar 188: Oh! but Lucinda and I tiffed it a little last Night.
1777		Sheridan School For Scandal I ii: We tift a little going to church, and came to a quarrel before the bells had done ringing.
1785		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1800s		Landor New Style n.p.: She tiff’d at Tim, she ran from Ralph [F&H].
1823		‘Jon Bee’ Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc.
1846		D. Jerrold Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Lectures 37: You know how you love pickles; and how we sometimes tiff about ’em.
1895		Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 85: Tiffing, good humoured bantering.
1928		W. Winchell Your Broadway & Mine 17 Nov. [synd. col.] Reuben, the restauranteur [sic], tiffed with the famous gambler and then ordered him to never darken the restaurant door again.