maffick

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'Mother, may I go and maffick,

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  1. intransitive verb Chiefly British To rejoice or celebrate with boisterous public demonstrations.

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  • 'Mother, may I go and maffick, —  Reginald
  • Of course you'll say there would be no traffic worth bothering about on the bare and sun-scorched veldt, but there's no other word that rhymes with maffick. " —  Reginald
 

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  1. After Mafeking, South Africa, town with a British garrison besieged for 217 days during the Boer War whose relief (May 17, 1900) was celebrated in London.

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  1. A back-formation from mafficking, taken as a verbal noun.
  2. maffick, v.
 

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/ˈmæfɪk/
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