(UK, colloquial) Having a bad smell.
The gym locker room always smells niffy after a workout.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(UK, Ireland, AU, NZ, informal) A bad smell.
(informal) To smell bad; to stink.
(Cornwall) A sulk or sullen mood.
(UK, dialect) To pilfer.
A UK dialect word with two distinct regional senses: to pilfer or steal small items (general dialectal), and to squirm or fidget (East Anglia). Both senses are highly localized and no longer in common use. The stealing sense fits into a broader dialectal tradition of soft-sounding words for petty theft, where the word's gentle sound almost accidentally lightens the moral weight of what it describes.