Lexicographical Neighbors of Naffs
Literary usage of Naffs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law Reports by Great Britain Court of Chancery, George Wirgman Hemming (1874)
"I will examine Mr. Bad-naffs proposition after I have disposed of these two.
The first, that they took an estate for life, with a chattel interest'super- ..."
2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"East. (2) To steal ; to pilfer. North. (3) To whine ; to sniffle. Suffolk.
It occurs in Reliq. Antiq. ii. 211. (4) To eat hastily. Beds. NIFF-naffs. ..."
3. The Code of Virginia: With the Declaration of Independence and Constitution by Virginia, John Mercer Patton, Conway Robinson (1849)
"or tenants as may be named in the order and writ, at a certain naffs.1"' 78t ch"
place and day therein also specified, of which notice shall be given by the ..."
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