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Spiff vs Spife - What's the difference?

spiff | spife |

As nouns the difference between spiff and spife

is that spiff is (uncountable) attractiveness or charm in dress, appearance, or manner while spife is a hybrid utensil of a spoon and a knife.

As a verb spiff

is (usually with up ) to make spiffy (attractive, polished, or up-to-date).

spiff

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (uncountable) Attractiveness or charm in dress, appearance, or manner
  • :Without a diploma, he relies on spiff alone to climb the corporate ladder.
  • (countable, dated) A well-dressed man
  • (countable, sales jargon) A bonus or other remuneration, given for reaching a sales goal or promoting the goods of a particular manufacturer. Originally from textile retailing, a percentage given for selling off surplus or out-of-fashion stock, of which the sales person could offer part as a discount to a customer.
  • (countable, colloquial, Jamaica) a hand-rolled marijuana cigarette; a joint
  • *2000 , Leone Ross, Tasting Songs'', in ''Dark Matter (ed. Sheree R. Thomas), p76
  • She rolled a spiff for us as she spoke, sifting the ganja between her fingers...
  • *2004 , Sander L. Gilman, Xun Zhou, Smoke: A Global History of Smoking , p144
  • ...someone else built a spiff which he lit and gave to me...

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (usually with up ) to make spiffy (attractive, polished, or up-to-date)
  • :Our productivity would surely increase if we'd just spiff up this office a bit.
  • to reward (a salesperson) with a spiff.
  • to throw.
  • :I spiffed the turf over the edge and it went straight through the window and hit the officer.
  • Synonyms

    *spruce (as in spruce up)

    Derived terms

    *spiff up *spiffy

    See also

    *spliff

    spife

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hybrid utensil of a spoon and a knife.