niff
IPA: nˈɪf
noun
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, informal) A bad smell.
verb
- (informal) To smell bad; to stink.
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Examples of "niff" in Sentences
- This description ends with the words, “… and walruses wif teef nike niff.”
- The general historical niff level would only be worthy of comment to a time traveller.
- After dinner Billy Ray went off to niff, and I went over to the library to see about Browning.
- They also told me that when you got close to them, they had a "'trong,' trong 'niff;' niff too much."
- There was a smell about the place, which I imagined as the smell of misery and fear, though I supposed it was no more than the niff of ancient squalor and an absence of drains.
- At length, however, 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.
- At length, however, 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. '
- But in time he came to feel that merely stifling the piggy niff was unambitious: the vast lakes of pigshit produced at hog farms ought in some way to be a revenue source rather than a waste product.
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