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spiggoty, n. (and a.) U.S. slang.|ˈspɪgɒtɪ|
Also spiggity, spigotti, spigoty.
[Orig. uncertain: prob. repr. broken English (see sense 1, quot. 1938): now generally superseded by spic n. and a.]
1. A contemptuous name for a Spanish-speaking native of Central or South America.
1910‘W. Lawton’ Boy Aviators in Nicaragua 331 Ring..steamed down here on his gunboat just in time to fire that shell and throw a scare into the spiggotys at the very physicky moment. 1913H. A. Franck Zone Policeman 88 10 It was my first entrance into the land of the panameños, technically known on the Zone as ‘spigoties’. 1916Recruiter's Bull. (U.S. Marine Corps, N.Y.) Jan. 10/1 Well, we did not get to Haut de Cap—we ran into a ‘nest’ of Spiggoties and things were pretty warm for about three hours. 1934R. Stout Fer-de-Lance xv. 248 ‘He's a dirty spiggoty.’ ‘No, Archie, Mr Manuel Kimball is an Argentine.’ 1938Amer. Speech XIII. 311/1 ‘Spiggoty’ originated in Panama during Construction Days, and is assumed to be a corruption of ‘spikee de’ in the sentence ‘No spikee de English’, which was then the most common response of Panamanians to any question in English. 1959R. Campbell I would do it Again xxvi. 196, I learned that the young ladies were mostly Spigoties, a name applied to those of mixed Spanish and Indian blood.
2. Spanish-American; more generally, a foreign language.
1914E. O'Neill Movie Man in Lost Plays (1950) 37 Say, you're getting to be a regular talker of spigoty! Slip me the answer to that word ‘basta’, will you? 1922H. L. Foster Adventures Trop. Tramp ix. 132 Just stood around the dock and jabbered a lot of spiggoty talk at me, like I could understand spiggoty! I don't know a word of this damned Spanish, and I'm glad of it! 1923Amer. Legion Weekly 27 Apr. 12 Yer S.O.L. kid!! All I can dope out is the date—I can't get this frog spiggity a 'tall!!
3. attrib. passing into adj. Central or South American; foreign.
1918W. S. Poague Diary 1 Feb. (? 1919) 28 We repaired to the town and had a white man's dinner with some spigotti liquor. 1937H. Klemmer Harbor Nights 197 Marijuana is a popular spiggoty drug which has spread rapidly into the North during recent years. |