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▪ I. niff, n.1 colloq. and dial.|nɪf|
Also nif.
[Origin unknown.]
Resentment, offence. Freq. in phr. to take a niff, to take offence.
1777Horae Subsecivae 303 Let her alone, her've o'ny a-got a bit of a niff her'll zoon come o' that again. 1865R. Hunt Pop. Romances W. of Eng. 2nd Ser. 78 The woman took a nif, and for a long time never spoke to our John. 1903in Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 267/2 You're taking the niff. 1914Dialect Notes IV. 77 Niff, a quarrel, grudge, or spite. 1946Amer. Speech XXI. 308 To ‘take a niff’ at a person was to conceive a violent dislike for him.
▪ II. niff, n.2 slang.|nɪf|
[Perh. f. sniff n.]
A disagreeable smell; a whiff.
1903in Eng. Dial. Dict. 1921Chambers's Jrnl. Mar. 202/1 They found themselves within an outer circle of bee hive huts, fires that had died to red glimmers, and—a ‘niff’, if I may thus gently put it. 1960D. Fearon Murder-on-Thames ii. 27 It wouldn't be nice for Rachel if some niff of ancient scandal caught up with her poor papa. 1975Draconian Christmas 16922/1 The customary Oxford autumn niff, usually readily recognisable, redolent as it is of bonfires and long grass.
▪ III. niff, v.1 colloq. and dial.|nɪf|
[Origin unknown.]
To quarrel, to be offended. So niffed |nɪft| ppl. a.
1875W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. 79 Niff, to quarrel; to be offended. 1880Courtney & Couch Gloss. Words in Use in Cornwall 40/1 She's gone away niffed. 1893D. Jordan Forest Tithes 99 Ye wunt feel niffed like when we meets ye, if we gives ye plenty o' elber-room, mister. 1906E. Phillpotts Portreeve iii. xii. 310 Then—just because you'm niffed about something—you lift your hand to her to let out your bile. 1924Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush viii. 119 At last Monica..was niffed. She thought him a muff. 1927W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 116 Anger is expressed by such phrases as these in ascending order of intensity: he was niffed or peeved, he got shirty or hairy, he got his rag out, [etc.].
▪ IV. niff, v.2 slang.|nɪf|
Also nif.
[See niff n.2]
intr. To have a disagreeable smell.
1927[see hum v.3]. 1934Wodehouse Thank you, Jeeves iii. 34 I've started breeding mice and puppies. And, of course, they nif a bit. 1938― Code of Woosters viii. 177 Scotties are smellie... You will recall how my Aunt Agatha's McIntosh niffed to heaven while enjoying my hospitality. 1950A. Baron There's no Home v. 57 This ol' street may niff a bit, but it don't smell as bad as the water out of polluted wells. 1967K. Giles Death in Diamonds iv. 66 It smelled... ‘Niffs, don't it?’ said one of the youths. 1974Wodehouse Aunts aren't Gentlemen xvii. 145 ‘Nasty slinking-looking bleeder.’.. ‘He don't half niff.’ |