词组 | spiv |
释义 | spiv noun a sharply dressed individual who lives by his wits – within the law for preference, and not too far outside the law whenever possible UK, 1934 Several possible etymologies vie for credence: an acronym from police records “Suspected Persons and Itinerant Vagrants”; back slang of the acronym for “Very Important Persons” (VIPs); dialect spif or spiff (neat, smart, dandified), which also leads to SPIFFINGspivic, an apparently obsolete Romany word for “sparrow”, used to describe those who followed the gypsies and picked up their leavings.
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