spiflicate

verb — 4 senses

verb

Etymology Apparently made up to resemble a word of Latin origin.

Obsolete To confound, silence or dumbfound.

Dated To beat severely.

Obsolete, Slang To stifle, suffocate, kill.

So out with your whinger at once, and scrag Jane while I spiflicate Johnny1837, Richard Barham, The Ingoldsby Legends:

Obsolete To ruin, destroy.

It completely busts up and spifflicates the medical evidence1932, Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase:

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