Contextualizebeta

niff-naff

noun

Definitions

  1. Something or someone insignificant

    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."
    • "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."

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for niff-naff. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA