Terms vs Spiflicated - What's the difference?
terms | spiflicated |
(spiflicate)
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
