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n. - An unpleasant smell.

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  • This description ends with the words, “… and walruses wif teef nike niff.”
  • The general historical niff level would only be worthy of comment to a time traveller.
  • After dinner Billy Ray went off to niff, and I went over to the library to see about Browning.
  • There was a smell about the place, which I imagined as the smell of misery and fear, though I supposed it was no more than the niff of ancient squalor and an absence of...
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