Lexicographical Neighbors of Squiffer
Literary usage of Squiffer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Misalliance: The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Fanny's First Play. With a by Bernard Shaw (1914)
"Whats a squiffer? DORA. Oh, of course: excuse my vulgarity: a concertina. ...
Will you tell me that, and stop cackling about your squiffer? DORA. ..."
2. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1901)
"Scoot. The razor-shell fish. Since it squirts water out on the eand. These words »kit«,
scoot, squirt, squiffer, ¡quit must be all cognate. ..."
3. A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes ; with Additional Notes by Isaac Reed, Robert Dodsley, Octavius Gilchrist, John Payne Collier (1825)
"... uses squitter-wit in the same sense that Nash employs squiffer-book : " The
primum mobile, which givi s motion to these overturning wheels of wicked- ..."
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