spiflicate

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verb

To confound, silence or dumbfound.

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Meanings

verbspiflicate (third-person singular simple present spiflicates, present participle spiflicating, simple past and past participle spiflicated)

present singular third person spiflicates · participle present spiflicating · participle past spiflicated · past spiflicated · alternative smifligate · alternative spefflicate · alternative spifflicate

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo confound, silence or dumbfound.
  2. datedtransitiveTo beat severely.
  3. obsoleteslangtransitiveTo stifle, suffocate, kill.

    So out with your whinger at once, and scrag Jane while I spiflicate Johnny

    1837, Richard Barham, The Ingoldsby Legends
  4. obsoletetransitiveTo ruin, destroy.

    It completely busts up and spifflicates the medical evidence

    1932, Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase

Origin

Apparently made up to resemble a word of Latin origin.

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APA

spiflicate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spiflicate

MLA

“spiflicate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spiflicate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “spiflicate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spiflicate.

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