spivish
English
Alternative forms
- spivvish
Etymology
From spiv + -ish.
Adjective
spivish (not comparable)
- Having the behaviour and appearance of a spiv.
- 1999 March 5, Jamie Reid, “The murder of this Sporting Life”, in The Guardian, retrieved 2 February 2017:
- The Sporting Life was racing. […] It was louche, spivish and disreputable just like the Turf itself.
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Translations
spiv like
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