spigotty

English

Noun

spigotty (plural spigotties)

1. (US, ethnic slur) Alternative form of spiggoty
   • 1918, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 190, page 73:

     A spigotty engineer had been working eleven years with an idea of tunneling the Andes

   • 1920, Boys' Life, volume 10, number 4, page 22:

     [H]e was afraid the Mexicans, who were, he claimed, first cousin to the spigotties, would catch us off our guard and give us the same treatment.

   • 1923, Adventure, volume 42, page 73:

     Ye'd ruther^[sic] lay around Colon and drink monkey rum with the spigotties than go to sea.