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spiffy
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spiffy - /spi'fee/ 1. Said of programs having a pretty, clever, or exceptionally well-designed interface. "Have you seen the spiffy X version of empire yet?" This was common mainstream slang during the 1940s.

2. Said sarcastically of a program that is perceived to have little more than a flashy interface going for it. Which meaning should be drawn depends delicately on tone of voice and context.
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When his overtures meet only embarrassed avoidance, he tries instead to engage the Spiffies - his private term for the fundamentalists at his school - but soon finds that they "refuse to come out from behind their slogans.
Asylum for Nightface by Campbell, Patsy / The Horn Book Magazine
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