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niffers

niffers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of niffer.

niffers is the plural 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 niffers

What is niffers the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Niffers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of niffer.

Words near niffers in the dictionary

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

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