maffick

American  

[maf-ik] / ˈmæf ɪk /

verb (used without object)

British.

1. to celebrate with extravagant public demonstrations.

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maffick British  

/ ˈmæfɪk /

verb

1. archaic (intr) to celebrate extravagantly and publicly

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Other Word Forms

• mafficker noun

Etymology

Origin of maffick

First recorded in 1895–1900; back formation from Mafeking, jocularly taken as gerund of verb maffick + -ing ¹ (the relief of the besieged city was joyously celebrated in London)

Example Sentences

"There's no top-down editorial memo that goes out, nothing like that," says J Ray Sparks, an American who is chief operating officer of Maffick, the German company that produces In The NOW.

From BBC

Photograph: Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images From the relief of Mafikeng in 1900 came a new word: to maffick, which means to celebrate unduly.

From The Guardian

At World Cups you have to maffick while you can.

From The Guardian

An example of a word which was at first used as slang not many years ago, and is now, if not the most elegant English, at least a quite respectable word for newspaper use, is maffick.

From Project Gutenberg

I make it have all sorts of unexpected yearnings— ‘Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?’

From Project Gutenberg