meaning of spiffy

1. spiffy /spifee/ 1. Said of programs having a pretty, clever, or exceptionally well-designed interface. "Have you seen the spiffy X version of empire yet?" This was common mainstream slang during the 1940s. 2. Said sarcastically of a program that is perceived to have little more than a flashy interface going for it. Which meaning should be drawn depends delicately on tone of voice and context. [Jargon File] spike To defeat a selection mechanism by introducing a sometimes temporary device that forces a specific result. The word is used in several industries; telephone engineers refer to spiking a relay by inserting a pin to hold the relay in either the closed or open state, and railroaders refer to spiking a track switch so that it cannot be moved. In programming environments it normally refers to a temporary change, usually for testing purposes as opposed to a permanent change, which would be called hard-coded.
2. marked by smartness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red ">hat"

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