spiflication
English
Etymology
See spiflicate.
Noun
spiflication (uncountable)
- (rare, obsolete) The act of spiflicating, or the state of being spiflicated; annihilation.
- 1855, Richard Francis Burton, Pilgrimmage to El-Medinah and Mecca:
- Whose blood he vowed to drink — the Oriental form of threatening spiflication
- 1859, George Meredith, chapter 11, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel:
- ... you had better not mention — to quote Johnson — of Benson's spiflication
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References
- The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1914
- Eric Partridge, A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, 8th edition, 1984