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Definition of Spiff
1. Noun. Attractiveness in appearance or dress or manner. "He gets by largely on pure spiff"
Definition of Spiff
1. Noun. Attractiveness or charm in dress, appearance, or manner ¹
2. Noun. (countable dated) A well-dressed man ¹
3. Noun. (countable sales jargon) A bonus or other remuneration, given for reaching a sales goal or promoting the goods of a particular manufacturer. Originally from textile retailing, a percentage given for selling off surplus or out-of-fashion stock, of which the sales person could offer part as a discount to a customer. ¹
4. Noun. (countable colloquial Jamaica) a hand-rolled marijuana cigarette; a joint ¹
5. Verb. (usually with ''up'') to make spiffy (attractive, polished, or up-to-date) ¹
6. Verb. to reward (a salesperson) with a spiff. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spiff
1. to make spiffy [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: spiffy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spiff
Literary usage of Spiff
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Original Plays by William Schwenck Gilbert (1908)
"I was on the point of being married to Jenny—and spiff turned up—and I determined
to blot out spiff—and I suppose I have blotted her out (looking round); ..."
2. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1851)
"spiff is a good customer to the houses in which he sojourns. He has frequently
some of his customers to dine or sup with him, and as he stays in a town of ..."
3. Therapeutic Pocket-book for Homoeopathic Physicians by Clemens Maria Franz von Bönninghausen (1846)
"spiff. Spong. Stan n. Staph. Stram. Stront Sulph. Sulph. ас. Таг. Thuj. Valer.
... spiff ..."
4. Studies in English, Written and Spoken: For the Use of Continental Students by Cornelis Stoffel (1894)
"38), 34": "They've a notion that we like to come out spiffy in our uniforms" ;
Ibid., 1856: " But it seems in William Rufus' reign, that spiff ness was ..."
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