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Found 4 hits - Term: spiffy, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : WordNet (r) 2.0
spiffy
     adj : marked by smartness in dress and manners; "a dapper young
           man"; "a jaunty red hat" syn: dapper, dashing, jaunty,
            natty, raffish, rakish, smart, snappy, spruce
     also: spiffiest, spiffier
see also:
dapper dashing jaunty natty raffish rakish 
smart snappy spruce spiffiest spiffier 

[2] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
83 moby thesaurus words for "spiffy":
   ok, ace-high, bad, bandbox, bang-up, bonzer, boss, braw, bully,
   but good, chic, classy, clothes-conscious, cool, corking,
   cosmopolitan, crackerjack, dandy, dapper, dashing, delicious,
   doggy, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, ducky, elegant,
   exquisite, fab, fine and dandy, gear, genteel, great, groovy,
   heavy, hot, hunky-dory, jam-up, jaunty, just dandy, keen, marvy,
   mean, natty, neat, nifty, nobby, okay, out of sight, peachy,
   peachy-keen, posh, recherche, ripping, ritzy, rum, sassy,
   scrumptious, sharp, slap-up, sleek, smart, smashing, smug, snazzy,
   soigne, soignee, solid, something else, sophisticated, spiffing,
   spruce, stunning, style-conscious, swank, swanky, swell, tough,
   tricksy, trig, trim, well-dressed, well-groomed, wizard




[3] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)
spiffy /spi'fee/ adj. 1. said of programs having a pretty, clever, or
   exceptionally well-designed interface. "have you seen the spiffy x
   version of empire yet?" 2. said sarcastically of a program that is
   perceived to have little more than a flashy interface going for it.
   which meaning should be drawn depends delicately on tone of voice and
   context. this word was common mainstream slang during the 1940s, in a
   sense close to 1.


see also:
x empire 
[4] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
spiffy
     
        /spi'fee/ 1. said of programs having a pretty, clever, or
        exceptionally well-designed interface. "have you seen the
        spiffy x version of empire yet?"  this was common
        mainstream slang during the 1940s.
     
        2. said sarcastically of a program that is perceived to have
        little more than a flashy interface going for it.  which
        meaning should be drawn depends delicately on tone of voice
        and context.
     
        jargon file
     
     
see also:
x empire jargon file 

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