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Ever heard anyone say this word?

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Ever heard anyone say this word?
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RE: Ever heard anyone say this word?
September 17, 2016 at 5:45 pm
And now the entomology please...
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RE: Ever heard anyone say this word?
September 17, 2016 at 5:45 pm
Well you could go check if you like. My 500th thread has three videos of me talking.
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RE: Ever heard anyone say this word?
September 17, 2016 at 5:47 pm
I looked. You have a very neutral, nondescript accent. It's nice
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RE: Ever heard anyone say this word?
September 17, 2016 at 5:47 pm
(September 17, 2016 at 5:45 pm)Alex K Wrote: And now the entomology please...

What have insects got to do with anything?
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RE: Ever heard anyone say this word?
September 17, 2016 at 5:49 pm
(September 17, 2016 at 5:47 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote:
(September 17, 2016 at 5:45 pm)Alex K Wrote: And now the entomology please...

What have insects got to do with anything?

Sorry, that was a malapriapism.
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RE: Ever heard anyone say this word?
September 17, 2016 at 5:49 pm
(September 17, 2016 at 5:45 pm)Alex K Wrote: And now the entomology please...

Best I can Google for in my insobriety right now is:

Languagehat.com Wrote:SPIFFLICATE.

January 20, 2006 by languagehat 10 Comments
I just ran across a fine old slang word, spifflicate or spiflicate—the former spelling is preferred by the New Oxford American Dictionary, which defines it as ‘treat roughly or severely; destroy,’ the latter by the OED, which defines it more elaborately: “To deal with in such a way as to confound or overcome completely; to treat or handle roughly or severely; to crush, destroy.” Some OED citations:
1796 New Brighton Guide 39 Come, spiflicate that scoundrel Care, Gruel him, bruise him, never fear.
1818 MOORE Fudge Fam. Paris ix. 223 Alas, alas, our ruin’s fated; All done up, and spiflicated!
1842 BARHAM Ingol. Leg. Ser. II. Babes in Wood xi, So out with your whinger at once, and scrag Jane, while I spiflicate Johnny!
1873 Brit. Q. Rev. LVII. 276 The way in which the learned, racy old Hector smashes and spiflicates scientific idiots.. is delicious.
The participle occurs in this bit of dialogue, which I shall have to remember for future use:
1891 MEREDITH One of our Conquerors x, You’ve got a spiflicating style of talk about you.
The etymology? It’s a “fanciful formation.”
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RE: Ever heard anyone say this word?
September 17, 2016 at 5:52 pm
How can a fanciful formation ever claim cromulence?
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September 17, 2016 at 6:02 pm (This post was last modified: September 17, 2016 at 6:04 pm by ApeNotKillApe.)
(September 17, 2016 at 5:49 pm)Alex K Wrote:
(September 17, 2016 at 5:47 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: What have insects got to do with anything?

Sorry, that was a malapriapism.

Maybe eduliate your textracations in future.
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September 17, 2016 at 6:14 pm (This post was last modified: September 17, 2016 at 6:15 pm by Alex K.)
(September 17, 2016 at 6:02 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote:
(September 17, 2016 at 5:49 pm)Alex K Wrote: Sorry, that was a malapriapism.

Maybe eduliate your textracations in future.

Your ebullience is bordering on extrusion!
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September 17, 2016 at 6:19 pm (This post was last modified: September 17, 2016 at 6:21 pm by ApeNotKillApe.)
My apologies. I'm anispeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation.
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