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nifles

nifles is the plural of nifle.

Meaning of nifle

Noun

nifle (plural nifles)

  1. (obsolete) A trifle; something small and insignificant.
    • THE great Galees of Venice and Florence
      Be well laden with things of complacence,
      All spicery and of grossers ware:
      With sweete wines all maner of chaffare,
      Apes, and Japes, and marmusets tayled,
      Nifles and trifles that little have avayled:
      And things with which they fetely blere our eye:
      With...1599, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Nauigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation, […], 2nd edition, London: […] George Bishop, Ralph Newberie, and Robert Barker, →OCLC...

Questions about nifles

What is nifles the plural of?
Nifles is the plural of nifle.

Words near nifles in the dictionary

  1. nifHs
  2. nifidepine
  3. nifkin
  4. nifkins
  5. nifle
  6. nifles
  7. Niflheim
  8. niflumic
  9. niflumic acid
  10. NIFOC
  11. Nifong

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