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He kept them in his study in a kind of glass-tank arrangement, and pretty niffy the whole thing was, I recall.

From Right Ho, Jeeves by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

"There's no call to be niffy," he apologised at last.

From I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir