spizzerinktum
n.— «Letting down the bars, he stuck his thumb into the lean ribs of the donkey and when that resentful creature reared and kicked, chuckled with a boundless joy. “You’re [sic] spizzerinktum hasn’t all burned up yet, eh old man?”» —“On Top” by Charles Frederic Goss Daily News (Frederick, Md.) Mar. 18, 1908. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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