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spigotty en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (US, alt-of, alternative, ethnic, slur) Alternative form of spiggoty.
    alt of spiggoty
    • [H]e was afraid the Mexicans, who were, he claimed, first cousin to the spigotties, would catch us off our guard and give us the same treatment. 1920, Boys' Life, volume 10, number 4, page 22:
    • Ye'd ruther^([sic]) lay around Colon and drink monkey rum with the spigotties than go to sea. 1923, Adventure, volume 42, page 73:
    • A spigotty engineer had been working eleven years with an idea of tunneling the Andes 1918, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 190, page 73:

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spigotties Number=Plur lexicographic