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  • He was ordered arrested, and six spiggoty little policemen, sent to arrest him, were also thrashed.

    Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Gordon [Illustrator] Grant 1918

  • He commandeered all the lighters the other schooners were using; the soldiers rounded up the _cargadores_ at the point of the bayonet, and they started discharging the American schooner _Tyee_, with the spiggoty soldiers swelling Joey's crew at the pumps and Joey doing business with that wooden plug according to the requirements.

    Cappy Ricks Retires 1918

  • "Me spiggoty 'Merican," sputtered the trembling old Mexican.

    The Border Boys Across the Frontier John Henry Goldfrap 1898

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  • Possibly an early version of spic.

    August 11, 2021