What's the difference between iffy and niffy?

Iffy


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  • (1) Before you know it you can have a few iffy results.
  • (2) Iffy grooming habits are the least of Wolfowitz's worries as he takes on the presidency of the World Bank.
  • (3) If Sampson had a case for arguing that Rafferty’s inital push had been made marginally outside the area, he could have had no complaints when England – due £35,000 per woman bonuses had they lifted the trophy – won a distinctly iffy penalty of their own.
  • (4) The keeper has looked iffy today but letting that in would have made him absolutely whiffy.
  • (5) Arsenal’s players performed a cancan on the pitch at Highbury as fans chanted: “We are unbeatable.” After an iffy first half, they had won 2-1 to complete a full season without defeat in the league.
  • (6) It’s looking certainly more iffy than it did even just a few days ago.
  • (7) It's looking like an iffy pot, or a two cushion escape.
  • (8) Because now Nando's has been caught ploughing money into all manner of legal but morally iffy offshore tax havens, and the fragile castle of ideology that I have painstakingly constructed for myself has crumpled.
  • (9) When they mentioned figures, they were very iffy about whether they were positive or negative.
  • (10) 11.12pm BST Tweets Rory Murphy (@bogotabandit2) so @HunterFelt prediction already looking a bit iffy.
  • (11) Their only post-promotion victory came at Sunderland in August but, after a few slightly iffy performances, Ramírez was back to his elegant, subtly incisive, intelligent best during last Saturday’s encouraging 0-0 draw at Arsenal .
  • (12) Berlind's theory of ovum transmigration in the etiology of tubal pregnancy is revived and brought into line with Iffy's delayed ovulation-reflux hypothesis.
  • (13) In other words: Tonight is your chance to go crazy conspiracy theorists, feel free to examine the game tape surrounding every iffy call as if it were the Zapruder film.
  • (14) It might be one of the oldest methods of preserving fruit, but make sure you put them in an airtight container, and if you've had them for a while, now's the time to use them up – I'm a bit iffy about keeping any ingredient for longer than six months.
  • (15) Jarvis isn't interested in who celebrities are shagging: "People might be a bit iffy, but that's between them and their conscience.
  • (16) He’s the one that’s been very iffy and about his role and what he would like to do about immigration.” Reckless made the comments when he was challenged to spell out what would happen to a Polish plumber if Ukip had its way on Britain leaving the EU.
  • (17) Indeed, according to Jim Ward's account, only an iffy penalty decision kept Rams – Isthmian League Cup winners that season – out of the final against Wimbledon.
  • (18) It was a bit iffy when Garvey got to the bullying (he said "strong-willed" and "tough" too many times, like he'd spent a weekend with Miliband, brainstorming positive terms for "bastard").
  • (19) Everyone: Isn't it a bit iffy hanging around with her again?
  • (20) Asked about calls for an election pact, he said: “The internal wrangling of the Conservative party is no longer my problem … There is something a little bit iffy about the idea of pacts, because it suggests politicians fixing things for their convenience.

Niffy


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