spiffing
IPA: spˈɪfɪŋ
adjective
- (Britain, colloquial, dated) Very good, excellent.
- (Britain, colloquial, dated) Smart or appealing in dress or appearance.
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Examples of "spiffing" in Sentences
- Hope you are feeling spiffing on this fine day.
- I noticed you're spiffing up a bunch of ship data tables.
- I shall ignore him where possible and impossibly spiffing.
- Thanks for spiffing up articles by adding reference columns.
- AsWikipedia has an article on spiffing, this should be cross linked.
- But I’m glad to see that in spiffing it up, they’re not going all serious.
- Gosport is a spiffing name but Gosport Tories has that nautical air to it.
- I guess the vector valued function article just needs a lot of spiffing up.
- It's because he's the only person I know who talks using words like 'spiffing' with any degree of comfort.
- The start of the end for the tories I believe as along with health and education their spiffing ideas are already starting to bite the dust.
- 'spiffing' and 'good egg' in my humble, but their use all helps to ensure that there is a slightly dotty, frenetic, flapperish atmosphere which makes these stories so agreeable.
- And yet the off-off-off season not only has particular charms but also offers a spiffing opportunity for luxury hotel living at unusually low rates—as I've just discovered on a fortnight's road trip from St. Tropez to Menton.
- Since his normal range of adjectives and adverbs was untranslatable, he still punctuated his speech with English words such as 'spiffing' and 'simply ripping' and 'absolutely ghastly', whose effect was disorientating and redundant rather than nonsensical.
- It's because he's the only person I know who talks using words like 'spiffing' with any degree of comfort. var doubleclick_ad_params = 'wg=2;wa=48;wc=AU;wi=18th;wi=century;wi=literature;wi=andromeda;wi=spaceways;wi=inflight;wi=magazine;wi=angel;wi=arthurian;wi=legends;jid=7007632;!
- Face to Face/Zuma Press Bankia Chairman Rodrigo Rato The task of cobbling together seven regional banks, some controlled by local political parties, and spiffing them up for an IPO has fallen to its chairman, Rodrigo Rato , a former senior government minister and top International Monetary Fund official.