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puffick, a.|ˈpʌfɪk|
[Repr. colloq. and dial. pronunc. of perfect.]
= perfect a. (esp. sense 5 d). So ˈpuffickly adv. = perfectly adv.
1891Kipling Many Invent. (1893) 3 He knows puffickly well where he is. 1907E. Nesbit Enchanted Castle iv. 105 You aint allowed to arrest a chap on suspicion, even if you know puffickly well who done the job. 1949M. Allingham More Work for Undertaker xiv. 176 The chap..was a puffick stranger. 1967‘A. Gilbert’ Visitor viii. 139 They'll ask..why you should take a chance like that for a puffick stranger. 1972C. Drummond Death at Bar ii. 61 She mimicked in Cockney, ‘A puffick gentlemen I'm sure, dear.’ |