spiflicateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Apparently made up to resemble a word of Latin origin.

動詞

spiflicate (三人称単数 現在形 spiflicates, 現在分詞 spiflicating, 過去形および過去分詞形 spiflicated)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To confound, silence or dumbfound.
2. (transitive, Provincial, obsolete) To beat severely.
3. (transitive, slang, obsolete) To stifle, suffocate, kill.
   • 1837, Richard Barham, The Ingoldsby Legends:

     So out with your whinger at once, and scrag Jane while I spiflicate Johnny

4. (transitive, obsolete) To ruin, destroy.
   • 1932, Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase:

     It completely busts up and spifflicates the medical evidence