spiff

Meanings

Plural: spiffs

Noun

• attractiveness in appearance or dress or manner
  • "he gets by largely on pure spiff"
• Attractiveness or charm in dress, appearance, or manner.
• A well-dressed man; a swell.
• A bonus or other remuneration, given for reaching a sales goal or promoting the goods of a particular manufacturer. Originally from textile retailing, a percentage given for selling off surplus or out-of-fashion stock, of which the sales person could offer part as a discount to a customer.
• Alternative form of spliff (“hand-rolled marijuana cigarette”).

Adj

• Neat, smartly dressed, attractive.

Verb

• (usually with up or out) To make spiffy (attractive, polished, or up-to-date)
• To reward (a salesperson) with a spiff or bonus.
• To attach a spiff or bonus to the selling of (a product)

Synonyms

barbermonger, beau, blade, blood, buck, carpet knight, cockscomb, dandy, dike, dood, dude, dudelet, exquisite, fashionable, fast man, fine gentleman, fop, foretop, fribble, gallant, go, jack-a-dandy, Jemmy-Jessamy, jetter, macaroni, masher, metrosexual, mignon, petit maître, popinjay, pretty boy, prig, puss-gentleman, smart, spark, spiff, spruce, swell, tippy, toff

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