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spifflicate

spifflicate is the alternative spelling of spiflicate.

Meaning of spiflicate

Verb

spiflicate (third-person singular simple present spiflicates, present participle spiflicating, simple past and past participle spiflicated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To confound, silence or dumbfound.
  2. (dated, transitive) To beat severely.
  3. (obsolete, slang, transitive) To stifle, suffocate, kill.
    • So out with your whinger at once, and scrag Jane while I spiflicate Johnny1837, Richard Barham, The Ingoldsby Legends
  4. (obsolete, transitive) To ruin, destroy.
    • It completely busts up and spifflicates the medical evidence1932, Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase

Forms of spifflicate

third-person singular presentspifflicates
present participlespifflicating
past participlespifflicated
pastspifflicated

Questions about spifflicate

What is spifflicate the alternative spelling of?
Spifflicate is the alternative spelling of spiflicate.

Words near spifflicate in the dictionary

  1. spiffily
  2. spiffiness
  3. spiffing
  4. spiffing up
  5. spiffingly
  6. spifflicate
  7. spifflicated
  8. spifflicates
  9. spifflicating
  10. spifflication
  11. spiffs

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