spiffy

4 definitions found

spiffy - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  spiffy
      adj 1: marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper
             young man"; "a jaunty red hat" [syn: dapper, dashing,
             jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy,
             snappy, spruce]

spiffy - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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.
  
     [Jargon File]
  

spiffy - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

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

spiffy - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  83 Moby Thesaurus words for "spiffy":
     OK, ace-high, bad, bandbox, bang-up, bonzer, boss, braw, bully,
     but good, chic, classy, clothes-conscious, cool, corking,
     cosmopolitan, crackerjack, dandy, dapper, dashing, delicious,
     doggy, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, ducky, elegant,
     exquisite, fab, fine and dandy, gear, genteel, great, groovy,
     heavy, hot, hunky-dory, jam-up, jaunty, just dandy, keen, marvy,
     mean, natty, neat, nifty, nobby, okay, out of sight, peachy,
     peachy-keen, posh, recherche, ripping, ritzy, rum, sassy,
     scrumptious, sharp, slap-up, sleek, smart, smashing, smug, snazzy,
     soigne, soignee, solid, something else, sophisticated, spiffing,
     spruce, stunning, style-conscious, swank, swanky, swell, tough,
     tricksy, trig, trim, well-dressed, well-groomed, wizard