a. slang. [Of obscure origin.] Bustling, fussy, officious.
1836–7. Dickens, Sk. Boz, Tales, v. As a little spoffish man … entered the room. Ibid., vii. He … was smart, spoffish, and eight-and-twenty.
1884. E. Yates, Recoll., II. 244. A little spoffish American gentleman … had regarded me with great curiosity.
So Spoffy a.
1860. Slang Dict., Spoffy, a bustling busy-body is said to be spoffy.
