Definitions
Etymologies
- Unknown, possibly coined in the 19th century (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Now what I always do when my template goes squiffy is to ..... call in the DEBLOG!!! ta da da music ...”
“Not only is she the great-granddaughter of Herbert Asquith, the Prime Minister whose drinking habits earned him the name 'squiffy', she is also the grandniece of British filmmaker Anthony”
“As if we're all going to sit around and say things like "squiffy," tosser "or" wanker "- although we can think of a few who deserve that last moniker.”
“Ok what on earth is a squiffy!!!???? ekkk yaya said,”
“And finally she flares into full loquacious life; squiffy but skewering, hardly able to open her mouth without an extraordinary sentence rasping out of it.”
The Guardian: The Last of the Duchess; 13; The Village Social – review
“Bo always knew what to do when computers went squiffy.”
“Into the chamber of the European parliament he went, a bit squiffy on something less than eight pints, and – as he admitted to the website Political Scrapbook – a little bit high on prescription drugs to alleviate the pain from a riding injury.”
“Radcliffe has recalled having to guide a presumably squiffy Richard Harris through lines the actor couldn't recall.”
“Samit Basu at 09: 05 on 13 June who is stirring stormclouds rowdy? who meets angels and says howdy? who makes squiffy skuas squelch?”
“It started shortly after the upgrade when the font menu started going squiffy in certain applications.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘squiffy’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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UK - slang
chin wag, arse about, bollock, starkers, sweet Fanny Adams, skive, shufti, codswallop, rhyming slang, bollocks, nookie, skew-whiff and 208 more...
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The weird, the wonderful and the plai...
Loved for their ingenuity, an exact description, or simply for the pure joy of it.
acidulous, aprosdoketon, higgledy-piggledy, lexicographical, ninja, audacious, somnabulist, shivaree, amorphous, quidnunc, glib, melancholy and 353 more...
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Bibulosity
Adjectives meaning, or approximating to 'drunk'
Pissed, Ratted, Merry, Tipsy, Legless, Blootered, Mortal, Inebriated, addled, tiddly, stewed, roistered and 39 more...
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Loaded
loaded, loaded dice, loaded question, loaded gun, loaded weapon, loaded diaper, bases are loaded, loaded words, loaded deck, off-loaded, springloaded, overloaded and 6 more...
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wingblossom's Words
flicker, wrinkle, solipsism, tea, aurora, lilt, burnt, crescent, gale, pocket, ephemeral, candied and 136 more...
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Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 1972 more... -
Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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Britishness
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Words I'd Like to Use Someday
thundersnow, phantasmagoria, mercurial, chimerical, taciturn, paraclete, lapis lazuli, flay, guttersnipe, wonky, misanthrope, kestrel and 583 more...
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
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Squ-
All those fun words that begin with squ-. Be careful; this list is hard to read without some serious eye-crossage.
squid, squab, square, squeegee, squirt, squire, squib, squelch, squabble, squad, squally, squalled and 228 more...
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Some Words I Love to Use
arcology, strumpet, crux, confected, pedant, bluestocking, cogitation, incensed, lovecraftian, cygnet, dactyl, adytum and 539 more...
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Interesting Scrabble words
Interesting words worth @ least 15 points.
smoochy, zareba, hyphal, djellaba, cloque, pyxidium, qindarka, squiffy, howbeit, chthonic, quinta, azimuthal and 262 more...
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Kay Ballard's Freshly Discovered Word...
This is a list of words and phrases that I find particularly fresh, fun and perhaps useful.
embrace the suck, her god-given nat..., in print again, a couple of small..., put paid, lonliness myth, word salad, digital influence..., snarky message t-..., book smeller, day drain, comfort manifesto and 89 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for squiffy.
knitandpurl "'I would have you know I was perfectly safe in that hive. It was only when I left that things went all'—she waved a hand airily—'squiffy'."
Soulless by Gail Carriger, p 105 Nov 8, 2010
chained_bear "'Fetch me some brandy, will you, Tom?'
Tom looked dubious.
'I think you oughtn't to drink brandy whilst being leeched, me lord. Might be as the little fellows would get squiffy and fall off afore they've quite done.'
'What an excellent idea. Get me brandy, Tom, and get a lot of it. Now.'"
—Diana Gabaldon, Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade (New York: Delacorte Press, 2007), 372 May 5, 2009
kayballard According to @DarenBBC it is enough alcohol to be silly, red cheeked, but dizzy, but NOT pissed. Jan 1, 2009
littleclaw Herbert Asquith? Sep 25, 2008