In Scottish dialect, a niffer is a swap or exchange — and to niffer is to barter or trade. It's the kind of word that sounds like exactly what it means: two people haggling and swapping things back and forth. Rooted in old Scottish trading culture, it's rarely heard outside of dialect speech today but pops up in historical Scottish literature.
He did a niffer with the market trader — an old knife for a decent pair of boots.
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(Scotland, transitive) To barter.
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(Scotland) An exchange.
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