spivvy

American  

[spiv-ee] / ˈspɪv i /

Also spivving

adjective

Chiefly British.

spivvier, spivviest

1. spiffy.

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Example Sentences

Along with The Third Man, this is a great British noir, the compulsive, concentrated morality tale of Harry Fabian, a spivvy American hustler in London who wants to make it big, played magnificently by Richard Widmark – volatile and paranoid, giggling insanely.

From The Guardian

By contrast, PR has made it on to the screen with spivvy chancer Tony Curtis being clapped in irons in The Sweet Smell of Success, a morally bankrupt Colin Farrell going into meltdown in the little-remembered 2002 movie Phone Booth, the absurdity of Absolutely Fabulous's Edina, and the sociopathic rages of Malcolm Tucker in The Thick Of It.

From BBC

TalkSport seems to have decided listeners in the north won't tolerate spivvy southerners, and listeners in the south don't have much patience with northerners, whom they suspect of being covered in woad.

From The Guardian

Why spivvy Sidney was worth resurrecting isn't entirely clear.

From The Guardian

But there are just as many regulators who see it as their job to protect spivvy businesses and allow them, as latter day Walkers, to bamboozle consumers into believing that the nylon stockings on sale are really made of silk.

From The Guardian