or spifflicate, smifligate, verb. (common).—To confound; to crush; to SMASH (q.v.). Hence SPIFLICATION = confusion; annihilation (GROSE). See quot. 1823.

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  1823.  BADCOCK (‘Jon Bee’), Dictionary of the Turf, etc., s.v. SPIFLICATE. To SPIFLICATE a thief is to spill him, or betray the subject of his roguery.

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  1837.  R. H. BARHAM, The Ingoldsby Legends, ‘The Babes in the Wood.’

        So out with your whinger at once,
  And scrag Jane, while I SPIFLICATE Johnny!

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  1856.  R. BURTON, Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah, vii. Whose blood he vowed to drink—the Oriental form of threatening ‘SPIFLICATION.’

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  1873.  British Quarterly Review, lvii. Jan., 276. The way in which the learned, racy old Hector smashes and SPIFLICATES scientific idiots, lunatics, and bores is delicious.

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  1899.  HYNE, Further Adventures of Captain Kettle, ix. ‘Very well. Den we shall SPIFLICATE you until you do.’ ‘I wonder what SPIFLICATION is,’ mused Kettle.

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  1901.  W. S. WALKER, In the Blood, 170. Then they threatened to SPIFLIGATE him if he stirred, and made off.

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