Lexicographical Neighbors of Niffering
Literary usage of Niffering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Yorkshire Words and Phrases: Collected in Whitby and the by Francis Kildale Robinson (1855)
"niffering or NIGGLING, making a bargain in a hard or haggling manner; ...
See niffering. NIGHT-CREAKER or CREAK-WARNER, a watchman's rattle. ..."
2. A glossary of Yorkshire words and phrases, collected in Whitby and the by Francis Kildale Robinson (1855)
"niffering or NIGGLING, making a bargain in a hard or haggling manner; ...
See niffering. NIGHT-CREAKER or CREAK-WARNER, a watchman's rattle. ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1811)
"... and Dr. Stock's substitution of the heathenish term " Oracle," for the burden
of the common version, we cannot think that niffering is to be ..."
4. The Law and Practice in Bankruptcy Under the National Bankruptcy Act of 1898 by William Miller Collier, Frank Bixby Gilbert (1914)
"A preference may consist not only in bankrupt's procuring or niffering a judgment
to be entered against him or making a transfer of his property within four ..."
5. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1880)
"A barter, an exchange, S. Ya ис your state wi' theirs compar'd. And shudder at
the ni/er. Burnt, ¡ii. 114. niffering, ie, The act of bartering. ..."
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