spigotty

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English

Noun

spigotty (plural spigotties)

  1. (US, ethnic slur) Alternative form of spiggoty
    • 1918, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 190, page 73:
      A spigotty engineer had been working eleven years with an idea of tunneling the Andes
    • 1920, Boys' Life, volume 10, number 4, page 22:
      [H]e was afraid the Mexicans, who were, he claimed, first cousin to the spigotties, would catch us off our guard and give us the same treatment.
    • 1923, Adventure, volume 42, page 73:
      Ye'd ruther lay around Colon and drink monkey rum with the spigotties than go to sea.