mafficking

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We have as yet little cause for "mafficking," but there is very little doubt that it will occur on a grandiose scale before the war is over.

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  1. A frenzied celebration of a victory, when the people of a city go wild with joy. See maffick, v. [Slang, Eng.] Probably in years to come the perfervid ebullitions which were described as “Mafficking” will be looked upon as beyond the bounds of physiological limits. Lancet, June 6, 1903, p. 1574.

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  • We have as yet little cause for "mafficking," but there is very little doubt that it will occur on a grandiose scale before the war is over. —  The War and the Churches
  • But after all, "mafficking" is not unknown in civilized countries. —  Anthropology
  • Some people accused the Merry Wives of rollicking and "mafficking" overmuch--but these were the people who forgot that we were acting in a farce, and that farce is farce, even when Shakespeare is the author All the summer I enjoyed myself thoroughly. —  The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections
  • The word which to us best recalls such gigantesque idiocy is the word "mafficking." —  Alarms and Discursions
  • To mafficking and Dreyfus scandals. —  Tea-Table Talk
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  1. From the name of Mafeking, a town in South Africa which became famous in the Boer war (1899–1900). Held by British troops under Colonel (later Major-General) R. S. S. Baden-Powell, it underwent a severe siege by the Boers. It was finally relieved on May 18, 1900. The announcement of the relief of Mafeking produced an extraordinary outburst of popular enthusiasm in London on the night of May 18. The name was humorously treated as a verbal noun in -ing, and the verb maffick was thus evolved.
 

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