niff-naff
Noun
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Noun
niff-naff (plural niff-naffs)
- Something or someone insignificant; a trifle.
- 1869, Thomas Thomson, Tales and sketches (page 322)
- When it came to Mr. Turnbull, he held it up between him and the light, "Keatie, whaten a niff-naff of a glass is this? let us see a feasible ane."
- 2006, Ski (volume 71, number 3, page 175)
- "They appear, friend," I reply, unhelpfully and without irony, as if any niff-naff who owns a megayacht with a decent liquor cabinet would know such a thing, "rather like the color of absinthe."
- 1869, Thomas Thomson, Tales and sketches (page 322)
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