nyaff
/njaf
/noun Scottish informal
A stupid, irritating, or insignificant person.‘But I thought he was a wee nyaff back then,’ she says, before letting rip with her trademark cackle....
- I find Green to be an irritating little nyaff, but he is well-cast as skiver Colin.
- You know what I liked, was the advert for Big Al's conservatories (a great parody TV ad for the wee nyaff's company).
Origin
Mid 19th century: from Scots dialect nyaff 'yelp, complain'.
- not-for-profit
- not gate
- not give a bugger
- not give a shit
- not give a stuff
- not give a tinker's curse (or cuss or damn)
- not give (or care) a damn
- not give (or care) a fig
- not give (or care) a monkey's
- not give (or care) a rat's ass
- not give (or care) a whoop
- not give something houseroom
- not-go
- not go any further
- not guilty
- not half
- no thanks to
- not have a bar of
- not have a cat in hell's chance
- not have a leg to stand on
- not have a penny to bless oneself with
- not have a pot to piss in
- not have a prayer
- not have a shot in one's locker
- not have a —— bone in one's body