spiffy
- spruce; smart; fine.
Origin of spiffy
Related Words for spiffy
beautiful, chic, chichi, classy, dandy, dapper, dashing, fashionable, high-class, jazzy, mod, now, ritzy, sharp, showy, sleek, slick, smart, snappy, snazzyExamples from the Web for spiffy
Contemporary Examples of spiffy
In a spiffy gray suit, POTUS pedals like a champion—all for the sake of science.
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June 15, 2013
Historical Examples of spiffy
"Jones, show his lordship the stock-list," said Spiffy, with a swagger.
PiccadillyLaurence Oliphant
"Ask the syndicate," said Jones, looking at Spiffy in a significant way.
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Spiffy got uncommonly pale, but recovered himself in a second.
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Spiffy first suggested the plan to me, and we found it succeed admirably last year.
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Spiffy Goldtip sent mamma mine, but declines to come to the front about Amy.
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spiffy
- US and Canadian slang smart; stylish
Word Origin for spiffy
Word Origin and History for spiffy
1853, of uncertain origin, probably related to spiff "well-dressed man." Spiffing "excellent" was very popular in 1870s slang. Uncertain relationship to spiff (n.) "percentage allowed by drapers to their young men when they effect sale of old fashioned or undesirable stock" (1859), or to spiflicate "confound, overcome completely," a cant word from 1749 preserved in American English slang spiflicated "drunk," first recorded 1906 in O.Henry.