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niffering

niffering is the present participle and gerund of niffer.

Meaning of niffer

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

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Questions about niffering

What is niffering the present participle and gerund of?
Niffering is the present participle and gerund of niffer.

Words near niffering in the dictionary

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

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