英语词汇“spiffy”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

spiffy

释义

spiffy, a. colloq. and dial.|ˈspɪfɪ|
[Of obscure origin; the shorter form spiff is recorded in dialect use from 1862; also spiff ‘a well-dressed man, a swell’ (Slang Dict. 1874).]
Smart, spruce.
1853D. G. Rossetti Let. 2 Nov. (1965) I. 161 The frame for my water-colour has just come in and is spiffy cheesy jammy nobby [etc.].1860Slang Dict. 223 Spiffy, spruce, well-dressed.1881–in dial. glossaries (Leicester, Warwick, Cornwall).1896Mrs. E. Lynn Linton in Chambers's Jrnl. 25 Jan. 50, I, in my older clothes, and by no means ‘spiffy’ in my get up.1958T. M. Stanwell-Fletcher Clear Lands 24 This was with the comparatively new, very spiffy Canadian government's C. D. Howe.1978H. Wouk War & Remembrance viii. 86 She's turned into quite the spiffy New York gal.

Add: Hence ˈspiffily adv.; ˈspiffiness n.
1977Washington Post 26 Apr. b5/4 They were a very spiffily dressed bunch.1981N.Y. Times 30 Oct. c34/4 Mr. Marash is the bearded correspondent who seldom wears a tie, thereby offering an alternative to the sartorial spiffiness of Jim Jensen and Roland Smith.1985R. Whelan Robert Capa ii. 29 He is spiffily dressed in a suit jacket, tie, and sweater: a radical in bourgeois clothing.

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