Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
Good, smart; useful or beneficial, often in an impressively clever way. · Stylish.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA possibly risqué comic story or anecdote. · A trick.
From *nift + -y. First element is of unknown origin. Possibly theatrical slang, as a shortened, altered form of Magnificat. Alternatively, perhaps a special use of US regional niffed (“put off, peeved”).
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- Word-formation component-yen
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