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Spiflicated vs Spiflicates - What's the difference?

spiflicated | spiflicates |

As verbs the difference between spiflicated and spiflicates

is that spiflicated is (spiflicate) while spiflicates is (spiflicate).

spiflicated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (spiflicate)

  • spiflicate

    English

    Alternative forms

    *smifligate *spefflicate (Cornish dialect) *spifflicate

    Verb

    (spiflicat)
  • To confound, silence or dumbfound - 1785 , Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
  • (Provincial) To beat severely - 1847 , A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words
  • (slang) To stifle, suffocate, kill.
  • :1837:' So out with your whinger at once, and scrag Jane while I '''spiflicate Johnny - , ''The Ingoldsby Legends
  • To ruin, destroy.
  • *1932:' It completely busts up and '''spifflicates the medical evidence - , ''Have His Carcase
  • See also

    *spiflicating *spiflication

    References

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    spiflicates

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (spiflicate)