英语词汇“niff-naff”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	niff-naff
释义	niff-naff, v. Sc. and north. dial. [Of obscure formation: niff-naff as n. in the sense of a trifling or unimportant thing is also common in north. dial. and Sc.] intr. To trifle. 1728Ramsay There's my Thumb iii, Dear lassie, it is but daffin To had thy wooer up ay niff naffin.a1878Ainslie Land of Burns (1892) 318 Nif-naffin' at her apron strings.1894Northumbld. Gloss. s.v., He niffnaffed at the job. So niff(y)-naffy a., trifling, finical. 1796W. Marshall Yorksh. (ed. 2) Gloss., Niffy-naffy.1815Scott Guy M. xliv, Thae niff-naffy gentles that gae sae muckle fash wi' their fancies.1855Robinson Whitby Gloss. s.v., ‘A niffy naffy sort of a body’, a person possessed of the opposite to business habits.
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