Definition of "maffick" []

• Chiefly British To rejoice or celebrate with boisterous public demonstrations. (verb-intransitive)

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• "Nor have they the fine American hand for devising new verbs; to maffick, to limehouse, to strafe and to wangle are their best specimens in twenty years, and all have an almost pathetic flatness."
• "From the relief of Mafikeng in 1900 came a new word: to maffick, which means to celebrate unduly."
• "Of course you'll say there would be no traffic worth bothering about on the bare and sun-scorched veldt, but there's no other word that rhymes with maffick. ""