Lexicographical Neighbors of Spoffy
Literary usage of Spoffy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Slang Dictionary: Or, The Vulgar Words, Street Phrases, and "fast by John Camden Hotten (1872)
"spoffy, a bustling busybody is said to be spoffy. SPONGE, " to throw up the
SPONGE," to submit, give over the struggle,— from the practice of throwing up ..."
2. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"... a lady of an accommodating disposition, who makes morganatic arrangements of
a temporary character. spoffy (common), applied to a bustling busybody, ..."
3. Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen by Ludwig Herrig (1866)
"363) und schwerlich sonst wo vor; es ist jedenfalls dasselbe wie spoffy, worüber
til. D. sagt: a bustling busybody is said to be ..."
4. Englisch-deutsches Supplement-lexikon: Als Ergänzung zu allen bis jetzt by Alexander Hoppe (1871)
"D.: a hustling busybody is said to be spoffy. — D. Sk. p. 384 : he invariably
spoke with astonishing rapidity ..."
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