niff-naff

English

Noun

niff-naff (plural niff-naffs)

1. Something or someone insignificant; a trifle.
   • 1869, Thomas Thomson, Tales and sketches, page 322:

     When it came to Mr. Turnbull, he held it up between him and the light, "Keatie, whaten a niff-naff of a glass is this? let us see a feasible ane."

   • 2006, Ski, volume 71, number 3, page 175:

     "They appear, friend," I reply, unhelpfully and without irony, as if any niff-naff who owns a megayacht with a decent liquor cabinet would know such a thing, "rather like the color of absinthe."