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English
Verb
niffer (third-person singular simple present niffers, present participle niffering, simple past and past participle niffered)
- (Scotland, transitive) To barter.
1828, David Macbeth Moir, The Life of Mansie Wauch:Magneezhy was in an awful case; if he had been already shot, he could not have looked more clay and corpse-like; so I took up a douce earnest confabulation, while the stramash was drawing to a bloody conclusion, with Mr Harry Molasses, the fourth in the spree, who was standing behind Bloatsheet with a large mahogany box under his arm, something in shape like that of a licensed packman, ganging about from house to house, through the country-side, selling toys and trinkets; or niffering plaited ear-rings, and suchlike, with young lasses, for old silver coins or cracked teaspoons.
Noun
niffer (plural niffers)
- (Scotland) An exchange.