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  • noun Alternative form of nevvy.

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Examples

  • Labels: expectations, hipsters, pop culture comments: neffy said ...

    Keepin' it real. Jessica Hagy 2006

  • Labels: expectations, pop culture comments: neffy said ...

    Creepy things, either way. Jessica Hagy 2006

  • Your neffy can ride, an '' e can s'y wot 'e likes, but if' e ain't modeled on Billy Garrison 'isself, then

    Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course 1924

  • When I was young the bogey man was as real to me as pa and nearly as much to be feared of, but just yesterday I was lectured for merely mentioning him to my neffy.

    Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906

  • My object in takin 'up the pen, neffy, is two-fold,

    The Lighthouse 1859

  • Mrs Stoutley (in joke) sister, and Emma and Lewis (also in joke) niece and neffy; that he called Doctor Lawrence neffy, too, with a pointedness and a sense of its being the richest possible joke, that covered with confusion the affianced pair; and with surprise the rest of the company; that he kicked the stooard amicably out of the room for indulging in explosions of laughter behind his chair, and recommending him, the

    Rivers of Ice 1859

  • My object in takin 'up the pen, neffy, is two-fold,

    The Lighthouse 1859

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