nifle

plural nifles

1. obsoleteA trifle; something small and insignificant.

   […]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.

   1607, Thomas Walkington, The optick glasse of humors. Or The touchstone of a golden temperature, […] , page 83

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   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.

   1599, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Nauigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation, […], 2nd edition, London: […] George Bishop, Ralph Newberie, and Robert Barker, →OCLC, page 193

   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?

   1610, William Camden, “Montgomery-shire”, in Philémon Holland, transl., Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press for] Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, →OCLC, pages 662-663