"nifle" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English nifle, possibly from Anglo-Norman. Compare Scots niffle (“to trifle”).",
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          "text": "THE great Galees of Venice and Florence\nBe well laden with things of complacence,\nAll spicery and of grossers ware:\nWith sweete wines all maner of chaffare,\nApes, and Japes, and marmusets tayled,\nNifles and trifles that little have avayled:\nAnd things with which they fetely blere our eye:\nWith things not induring that we bye.",
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          "ref": "1607, Thomas Walkington, The optick glasse of humors. Or The touchstone of a golden temperature, […] , page 83:",
          "text": "[…]but if they be greeued, let their toad-swolne galls burst in sunder for me, with puffing choler: let them turne the buckle of their dudgeon anger behinde, lest the toung of it catch their owne dottril skins, I waigh them not a nifle.",
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          "ref": "1610, William Camden, “Montgomery-shire”, in Philémon Holland, transl., Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press for] Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, →OCLC, pages 662-663:",
          "text": "If I should say, that either Duke Medus, or Prince Olanus built this Mediolanum of ours, and those Cities of the same name in Gaule, or that whiles they were a building Sus mediatim Lanata, that is, That a Sow halfe fleeced with wooll, was digged up, might I not be thought (thinke you) to catch at Clouds, and fish for Nifles?",
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        "A trifle; something small and insignificant."
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        "(obsolete) A trifle; something small and insignificant. [15th–17th c.]"
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          "text": "THE great Galees of Venice and Florence\nBe well laden with things of complacence,\nAll spicery and of grossers ware:\nWith sweete wines all maner of chaffare,\nApes, and Japes, and marmusets tayled,\nNifles and trifles that little have avayled:\nAnd things with which they fetely blere our eye:\nWith things not induring that we bye.",
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