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形容詞

spiffing (comparative more spiffing, superlative most spiffing)

1. (Britain, colloquial, dated) Very good, excellent.

   We're having a picnic at the races — how spiffing!

2. (Britain, colloquial, dated) Smart or appealing in dress or appearance.

   I say, that outfit is simply spiffing.

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     I have a lovely pair with a hair strip, grey. You'll look spiffing in them.

   • 2007, "Spiffing new image", Times Online, London, 18 May (retrieved 14 June 2007),

     Spiffing new image: ITV is developing an updated version of Spitting Image, with CGI graphics.

使用する際の注意点

• Typically associated with the British upper class; often used in imitation of upper-class speakers.

同意語

• spiffy
• spliffy

派生語

• spiffingly

動詞

spiffing

1. present participle and gerund of spiff

参照

• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.