nignay means something trivial or worthless. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.
noun
- Something trivial or worthless.“And if you were only to see the sums which those thoughtless young lads, who have ten times more money than wit to guide it, throw away on useless nigg-nyes, while thousands around them are pinched for the necessaries of life, it would make the very hair of your head, my dear Archy, stand up like the locks of Medusa.”