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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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Quotation dates: 1835, 1900
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JAFFLE, v.
1. To tire or wear out. Hence ppl.adj. jaffled, “fatigued looking, down in body and clothes” (Gall. 1824 MacTaggart Gallov. Encycl. 281; ‡Kcb. 1959).Kcb.4 1900:
He's geyly jaffled oot.
2. Appar. to trifle, fritter away time. Dmf. 1835 Letters T. Carlyle to his Brother (Marrs 1968) 376:
The danger all over Annandale (perhaps less in Annan than elsewhere) is that miserable habit of jaffling, in all senses of the word.
