spiff
(noun) attractiveness in appearance or dress or manner; “he gets by largely on pure spiff”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
spiff (countable and uncountable, plural spiffs)
(uncountable) Attractiveness or charm in dress, appearance, or manner.
(countable, dated) A well-dressed man.
(countable, commerce, slang) 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.
(countable, colloquial, Jamaica) Alternative form of spliff (“hand-rolled marijuana cigarette”)
spiff (third-person singular simple present spiffs, present participle spiffing, simple past and past participle spiffed)
(transitive, informal) (usually with up or out) To make spiffy (attractive, polished, or up-to-date)
(transitive, commerce, slang) To reward (a salesperson) with a spiff or bonus.
(transitive, commerce, slang) To attach a spiff or bonus to the selling of (a product)
(transitive, informal) To throw; to heave.
• spruce (as in spruce up)
• piffs
Source: Wiktionary
29 April 2024
(noun) a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
