Lexicographical Neighbors of Niffing
Literary usage of Niffing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1812)
"This may be an error of press : but what does the author mean in Vol. ii. p. 257.
* niffing up a child in kit arms}' or by writing from London ini York: ..."
2. The Works of the Right Reverend Joseph Hall by Joseph Hall, Philip Wynter (1863)
"MAITLAND. a Shakspeare has— " The tailor stays thy leisure, To dock thy body with
his niffing treasure. ..."
3. A Warwickshire Word-book: Comprising Obsolescent and Dialect Words by G. F. Northall (1896)
"... as ' I never seed sich a thing in all my puff.' Puff-crumb, sb. A small portion
of protruding bread picked from a newly-baked loaf. SE. Wore, (¡niffing- ..."
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