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Nifty   Listen
adjective
nifty  adj.  
1.
Very good; excellent; an informal term meaning about the same as groovy, sense 1. (informal, 1960's)
Synonyms: bang-up, bully, cool, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, not bad(predicate), peachy, slap-up, swell, smashing.
2.
Stylish; attractive; of clothing; as, a nifty outfit.





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"Nifty" Quotes from Famous Books



... as he needs to work all the time; Cronney is peculiar, you know, he's one of them that is high-toned and nifty about money—he ain't like ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1917 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... the spectacle, pulling up his baggy trousers to display his tan footgear, "because they was made for dry goin'—that's why they left the tops off; but they've got a nice, healthy color, ain't they? As a whole, it seems to me I'm sort of nifty." He revolved slowly before their admiring gaze, and while to one versed in the manners of the Far East it would have been evident that the original owner of these clothes had come from somewhere beyond the Susquehanna, and had either been a football player or had travelled with ...
— The Barrier • Rex Beach
... "That's a nifty outdoor suit you've on," he said, admiringly. "I was wondering what you'd wear. I like short outing skirts for women, rather than trousers. The service sort of made the fair sex ...
— The Call of the Canyon • Zane Grey
... level I am sore of heart, For nifty Mame has frosted me complete, Since ten o'clock, G. M., when on the street I saw my lightning finish from the start. O goo-goo eye, how glassy gazed thou art To freeze my spinach solid when we meet, And keep thy Willie on the ...
— The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum • Wallace Irwin


Words linked to "Nifty" :   slap-up, colloquialism, keen, peachy, swell, cracking, bully, dandy, good, corking, not bad, neat, groovy


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