Description:

The term 'nef' refers to any wooly or fleecy substance. To specify which kind, say cotton versus wool versus syntetic fibers, it is generally necessary to specify. Essentially any soft, fibrous or fluffy mass that lacks a visually filementous quality can be 'nef'. In the technical terminology of textile manufacture, 'nef' is a general term for raw fiber of any kind. 'Nef' is an Old Common word.

Noun:

The usual use of 'nef' is as a noun, and refers to any substance that meets the general definition. It can also refer in a general way to the fiber that a woven material is made of.

Verb:

'Nef' is not often used as a verb, except in a slangy way. When used in a more technical, agricultural sense, it means something like 'to harvest the fleece from something', much like we might say 'shear a sheep' in English. In this case, it is a transitive skurun verb with an ergative fleecer and and an absolutive thing fleeced.

In slang, 'nef' means to con or to cheat, in analogy to the idea of fleecing a sheep and likely calqued from English, as this was not an original sense of the word in Old Common.

Modifier:

As a modifier, 'nefys' literally means having a texture or quality like wool or cotton, fleecy. It can also be used when describing a person to mean pleasant in a dumb way, or just dumb or stupid. This sense again may be calqued from English.