spizzerinctum
n.— «She was a member of the…Spizzerinctum club.» —“Mrs. J. J. Hamley Dies Sunday in Pendleton” Walla Walla Bulletin (Wash.) Mar. 12, 1946. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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