"nignay" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Uncertain; perhaps compare knick-knack.",
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          "ref": "1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 270",
          "text": "And if you were only to see the sums which those thoughtless young lads, who have ten times more money than wit to guide it, throw away on useless nigg-nyes, while thousands around them are pinched for the necessaries of life, it would make the very hair of your head, my dear Archy, stand up like the locks of Medusa.",
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          "text": "He had a lot o' curious auld nig-nayes.",
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        "Something trivial or worthless."
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        "(Scotland, Ireland) Something trivial or worthless."
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          "word": "nigg-nye"
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        "(Scotland, Ireland) Something trivial or worthless."
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