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niffer

niffer verb: to barter.

Verb

niffer (third-person singular simple present niffers, present participle niffering, simple past and past participle niffered)

  1. (Scotland, transitive) To barter.
    • 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...1828, David Macbeth Moir, The Life of Mansie Wauch
    • No lang efterhin the yung son niffert the haill o his portion for siller, and fuir awa furth til a faur-aff kintra, whaur he sperfelt his siller livin the life o a weirdless waister.1983, William Laughton Lorimer, “Luke 15:13”, in The New Testament in Scots

Noun

niffer (plural niffers)

  1. (Scotland) An exchange.

Forms of niffer

Verb
third-person singular presentniffers
present participleniffering
past participleniffered
pastniffered
Noun
pluralniffers

Questions about niffer

What does niffer mean?
Niffer means to barter.
What part of speech is niffer?
Niffer can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of niffer?
The past tense of niffer is niffered.

Words near niffer in the dictionary

  1. niff
  2. niff-naff
  3. niff-naffs
  4. niff-naffy
  5. niffed
  6. niffer
  7. niffered
  8. niffering
  9. niffers
  10. niffier
  11. niffiest

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