Lexicographical Neighbors of Niffnaff
Literary usage of Niffnaff
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"... knick. knack, which hand will ye tak? Tak the reet, tak the wrang; aa'll
beguile ye if aa can." niffnaff, to take finical pains ; to trifle. ..."
2. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Harry Haldane, Oliver Heslop (1894)
"Tak the reel, tak the wrang; aa'll beguile ye if aa can." Yet another goes thus :—
niffnaff, to take finical pains ; to trifle. " He ni/nafed on at the job. ..."
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