Word: spivish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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David is only one of the embassy oddballs, mostly relatives, with whom the narrator-heroine Fanny has to cope in Don't Tell Alfred. Another is Son Basil, full of spivish schemes such as a telly-rest coach for British tourists whose feet and palates are weak: "When they gets to the place they've come to seethe Prado, say, or some old world hill town in Tuscany, they just sits on in the coach and views the 'ole thing comfortable on TV while eating honest grub, frozen up in Britain, all off plastic trays, like...
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