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{ "forms": [ { "form": "niffers", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "niffering", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "niffered", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "niffered", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "niffer (third-person singular simple present niffers, present participle niffering, simple past and past participle niffered)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "Scottish English", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "_dis": "49 51", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "48 52", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "49 51", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1828, David Macbeth Moir, The Life of Mansie Wauch:", "text": "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.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To barter." ], "id": "en-niffer-en-verb-nM4lt3Iz", "links": [ [ "barter", "barter" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(Scotland, transitive) To barter." ], "tags": [ "Scotland", "transitive" ] } ], "word": "niffer" } { "forms": [ { "form": "niffers", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "niffer (plural niffers)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "Scottish English", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "_dis": "49 51", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "48 52", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "49 51", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "glosses": [ "An exchange." ], "id": "en-niffer-en-noun-e6iP0yQJ", "links": [ [ "exchange", "exchange" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(Scotland) An exchange." ], "tags": [ "Scotland" ] } ], "word": "niffer" }
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