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spoffish

spoffish adjective: earnest and active in matters of no importance; bustling.

Adjective

spoffish (comparative more spoffish, superlative most spoffish)

  1. (UK, colloquial, dated) earnest and active in matters of no importance; bustling
    • , Horatio Sparkins
      Mr. Malderton, […] a little spoffish man, with green spectacles, entered the room.

spoffish meaning in Tamil

spoffish in Tamil

ஆரவாரமான

Forms of spoffish

comparativemore spoffish
superlativemost spoffish

Origin of spoffish

Probably from British English dialect spoffle (“to be spoffish”).

Questions about spoffish

What does spoffish mean?
Spoffish means earnest and active in matters of no importance; bustling.
What is spoffish in Tamil?
Spoffish in Tamil is ஆரவாரமான. See Spoffish meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is spoffish?
Spoffish is an adjective.

Words near spoffish in the dictionary

  1. spodumenes
  2. Spoerl
  3. Spoerls
  4. spoetry
  5. SPOF
  6. spoffish
  7. spoffle
  8. spoffled
  9. spoffles
  10. spoffling
  11. Spofford

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spoffish (page history and authors); spoffish (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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