spiff

adjective more spiff · most spiff

1. Yorkshire, archaic, dialectal Neat, smartly dressed, attractive. “Hah spiff he is to dāay!—he mud be bown tul a wedding!” “He’s spiff eniff for’t!”

noun spiffs

1. uncountable Attractiveness or charm in dress, appearance, or manner. Without a diploma, he relies on spiff alone to climb the corporate ladder.
2. archaic, countable, slang A well-dressed man; a swell.

   Similar: macaroni, popinjay, barbermonger, beau, blade, blood, buck, carpet knight, cockscomb, dandy, dike, dood

3. countable, slang 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. The strongly-recommended piece of cloth was, in the conventional language of the drapery trade, a “spiff” in other words, a remnant of an old stock which had been lying by unsold for three or four years, perhaps longer, and had faded through keeping, like other beautiful things, thereby decreasing i
4. Jamaica, alternative, colloquial, countable Alternative form of spliff (“hand-rolled marijuana cigarette”). She rolled a spiff for us as she spoke, sifting the ganja between her fingers […]

verb spiffs · spiffing · spiffed

1. informal, transitive (usually with up or out) To make spiffy (attractive, polished, or up-to-date) Oh, but we flatter ourselves that we are spiffed out; at all events, we've got our best dresses on.
2. slang, transitive To reward (a salesperson) with a spiff or bonus. It is my confirmed belief that, spiffed or not, the salesman is the consumer's best-qualified and best- informed source of assistance in matters of component selection.
3. slang, transitive To attach a spiff or bonus to the selling of (a product) It wasn't my fault if the blamed old store caught fire and gave me a chance to help Ferguson move out some of the stuff that has been 'spiffed' till it looks like red ink had been spilled all over the price-tags.

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