Spellken, or SPEELKEN, a playhouse. German, SPIELEN. See [KEN].—Don Juan.
Spick and span, applied to anything that is quite new and fresh.—Hudibras.
Spidireen, the name of an imaginary ship, sometimes mentioned by sailors. If a sailor be asked what ship he belongs to, and does not wish to tell, he will most probably reply—“The SPIDIREEN frigate, with nine decks, and ne’er a bottom.” See [merry dun of Dover].
Spierized, to have your hair cut and shampooed, from the shop of Spiers in High Street.—Oxford University.
Spiff, a well-dressed man, a “swell.”
Spiffed, slightly intoxicated.—Scotch Slang.
Spiffs, the per-centages allowed by drapers to their young men when they effect a sale of old-fashioned or undesirable stock.
Spiffy, spruce, well-dressed, tout à la mode.
Spifflicate, to confound, silence, annihilate, or stifle. A corruption of the last word, or of “suffocate.”
Spike Park, the Queen’s Bench Prison. See [Burdon’s Hotel].