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niff-naff en · NOUN
Meanings
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Something or someone insignificant; a trifle.
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."
1869, Thomas Thomson, Tales and sketches, page 322:"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."
2006, Ski, volume 71, number 3, page 175:
Forms
Deriveds
niff-naffy