spizzerinktum

spizzerinktum

1. old-fashioned slang Exuberant, vigorous energy. Your kids certainly are full of spizzerinktum first thing in the morning! This ultra-healthy smoothie recipe will give you the spizzerinktum you need to get your day started right.
2. old-fashioned slang Powerful determination, confidence, and resolve; strength of spirit and will to succeed. We're looking for a marketing manager with a lot of spizzerinktum, someone who will strive to do great things for our company! He's got intelligence and talent, but he's just lacking a bit of spizzerinktum, you know?
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

spizzerinktum

(spɪzɚˈrɪŋktəm)
n. energy; vitality. The kid’s got spizzerinktum! I like that.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • spizzerinctum
  • hold (one's) nose
  • hold nose
  • (one's) day on a plate
  • drink up
  • Drink up!
  • blow off (some) steam
  • blow off some steam
  • blow off steam
  • put the roses back in your cheeks
References in periodicals archive
Powell; SPIZZERINKTUM: THE RAPTUROUS DELIGHT OF GROWING UP AMERICAN; AuthorHouse (Biographies and Memoirs) $18.49 ISBN: 142592297
Spizzerinktum? "Dad I can't find that word in the dictionary at school where did you hear it?" asked Kenny.
Spizzerinktum: The Rapturous Delight of Growing Up American is the exuberant account of the life of the Powells a family with strong Quaker and Baptist roots.
One truly feels the imprint of a younger less complicated world; reading "Spizzerinktum" is guaranteed a fascinating journey back in time.
I placed my order for the breed named after my home state and noted for "being especially endowed with spizzerinktum." I still have not figured what that is, but at the time I thought it must be good.
Andrew Christies of Kingston, New Hampshire, mated the best of his Plymouth Rock hens with his New Hampshire cocks to give his chicks hybrid vigor, or "Spizzerinktum," a term he trademarked in 1932.