What does niff-naff mean?

niff-naff

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.11 in modern English

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"When it came to Mr. Turnbull, he held it up between him and the light, "Keatie, whaten a niff-naff of a glass is this? let us see a feasible ane.""
""They appear, friend," I reply, unhelpfully and without irony, as if any niff-naff who owns a megayacht with a decent liquor cabinet would know such a thing, "rather like the color of absinthe.""

niff-naffs (plural)

niff-naffy

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