niffer

English

Verb

niffer (third-person singular simple present niffers, present participle niffering, simple past and past participle niffered)

  1. (Scotland, transitive) To barter.
    • 1828, David Macbeth Moir, The Life of Mansie Wauch‎[1]:
      Magneezhy was in an awful case; if he had been already shot, he could not have looked more clay and corpse-like; so I took up a douce earnest confabulation, while the stramash was drawing to a bloody conclusion, with Mr Harry Molasses, the fourth in the spree, who was standing behind Bloatsheet with a large mahogany box under his arm, something in shape like that of a licensed packman, ganging about from house to house, through the country-side, selling toys and trinkets; or niffering plaited ear-rings, and suchlike, with young lasses, for old silver coins or cracked teaspoons.
    • 1983, William Laughton Lorimer, “Luke 15:13”, in The New Testament in Scots:
      No lang efterhin the yung son niffert the haill o his portion for siller, and fuir awa furth til a faur-aff kintra, whaur he sperfelt his siller livin the life o a weirdless waister.

Noun

niffer (plural niffers)

  1. (Scotland) An exchange.
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