nifflel (nifl)

i.; pret. and pp. nifled, ppr. niffling. [Formerly also nivel; IMG:content-1363.png:[blocks in formation] She departed, grumbling between her teeth that "she wad rather lock up a haill ward than be fiking about thae niff - naffy gentles that gae sae muckle fash wi' their fancies." Scott , Guy Manner ing, xliv. ( Jamie son .) II. n.; pl. niffnaffies (-iz). A trifling fellow. [Prov. Eng. or Scotch in both uses.]