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- n. Alternative form of chifforobe.
Examples
“First, chiffarobe, which is a Sears and Robuck mashup of chiffonier and wardrobe.”
“I scolded that bad Puck yet again and confined him in the chiffarobe.”
“Better get back to bussin' up dat chiffarobe an makin' sum sour mash.”
“July 15, 2008 at 6:29 am oo, datz funnee. my mama had (prolly still duz in sum chiffarobe) a nalligator purse (& machine shoos, 0′ course), adn i wuz skeered ov it win i was teh little cuz i thot it wood bite me! sumfin about the way it snapped shut…”
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“Wow ... that is so kind of you, Julie ... but I'm not sure I get your angle - do you need someone to * bust up a chiffarobe?”
“P.S. Also worth noting is the scene where one of the weeds tries to bust up a chiffarobe for a hot house flower, but ends up in hot water as a result!”
“The beds in both bedrooms, the dressing sets, the chiffarobe.”
“My favorite granny words were (are): davenport (sofa, couch, really) chiffarobe”
“Long story short - and yes, Troof, I'm ignoring your inane pabulum, because each and every one of your charges was addressed by parties with a direct standing in this case in 2006-7 and I've got better things to to do than try and convince some suburban chiffarobe-monitor that black people are not, in fact, to blame for the Holocaust - racism is only real when it's reverse racism, the Emancipation Proclamation forced liberty on a people unsuited for it, and naming a day and a street after Martin Luther King is unfair unless you also do it for David Duke, who struggled similarly for the constitutional rights and spiritual freedom of a long-oppressed, nationally underrepresented minority.”
“The chiffarobe he had bought was a ramshackle; even paint wouldn’t help that.”
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chained_bear Yes, I agree--there are at least three reasonable spellings for this word, and all of them look right.
I think "chiffo-" also makes sense if you think of "chiffon." Oct 22, 2007
sionnach Given the portmanteau etymology, chifforobe does seem most defensible. But I have only ever seen it spelled chiffarobe. Oct 22, 2007
chained_bear Isn't this word spelled chifforobe? Also, looking it up to check the spelling, I discovered it's a portmanteau of chiffonier and wardrobe, which is pretty cool! (p.s. I always thought it was spelled chifferobe!) Oct 22, 2007