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spivish

adj

Etymology

From spiv + -ish.

  1. derived from spiv — “sparrow”
  2. suffixed as spivish — “spiv + ish”

Definitions

  1. Having the behaviour and appearance of a spiv.

    • The Sporting Life was racing. […] It was louche, spivish and disreputable just like the Turf itself.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for spivish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA