Meaning of nifle | Babel Free

Definitions

A trifle; something small and insignificant.

obsolete

Examples

“THE great Galees of Venice and Florence Be well laden with things of complacence, All spicery and of grossers ware: With sweete wines all maner of chaffare, Apes, and Japes, and marmusets tayled, Nifles and trifles that little have avayled: And things with which they fetely blere our eye: With things not induring that we bye.”

“[…]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.”

“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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