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6 letters · 17 points in Scrabble
Meaning
adjective marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
originUnknown. Attested in print from 1852 (see quotations below). Compare the noun spiff, attested from 1859, as well as spiffing (1872) and spiffed (1881), suggesting participle forms of a related verb. Compare also spiv (“a smartly-dressed criminal”), attested from the 20th century.
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