spiffy : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: spiffy	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for spiffy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
spiffy adj marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat" Synonym(s): dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, snappy, spruce
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
spiffy /spi'fee/ adj. 1. Said of programs having a pretty, clever, or exceptionally well-designed interface. "Have you seen the spiffy {X} version of {empire} yet?" 2. Said sarcastically of a program that is perceived to have little more than a flashy interface going for it. Which meaning should be drawn depends delicately on tone of voice and context. This word was common mainstream slang during the 1940s, in a sense close to 1.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
spiffy /spi'fee/ 1. Said of programs having a pretty, clever, or exceptionally well-designed interface. "Have you seen the spiffy {X} version of {empire} yet?" This was common mainstream slang during the 1940s. 2. Said sarcastically of a program that is perceived to have little more than a flashy interface going for it. Which meaning should be drawn depends delicately on tone of voice and context. [{Jargon File}]