Spigoty (1901) (from Spaghetti, 1896?_

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     _Times Democrat _
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Viewer.aspx?img=W0CtXEq/mhWKID/6NLMW2kHoqC81gExgr9tBgp9VkckpjA1V0fY8OkIF+CsZYmrz)  Monday, April
08, 1901 _Lima,_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=city:lima+spigoty+AND)  _Ohio_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=state:ohio+spigoty+AND)      ...partment. The oScers met by  j iatt a "SPIGOTY"
dollar or a "SPIGOTY.....by .a writer in  the Boston Transcript. SPIGOTY.
according to one version,  was..
Pg. 7, col. 4:
_The Birth of "Spigoty."_

The new words arising from the mixture of American and Spanish in our new
possessions may call, shortly, for new editions of our dictionaries. The story
of one such word, "spigoty," has been traced by a writer in the Boston
Transcript. Spigoty, according to one version, was the nickname given by  troopers
in the Second cavalry--stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas, in 1896--to a
sallow-complexioned company man who admired an Italian girl called "Spaghretti."  At
the outbreak of the war these soldiers, together with their comrade  "Spigoty,"
were transferred to Company A of the signal corps. After a stay at
Chickamauga this company was sent to Porto Rico with General Miles' expedition,  landed
at Ponce and encamped later at Guayama. Here the men discovered that the
natives themselves were of the same hue as "Spigoty," and in the course of time
they therefore dubbed them "Spigoties." Soon the nickname spread, not only in
Guayama, but throughout the province, and at last to every town on the
islanf,  till now the word has become a common means both of designating residents
of  Spanish or Porto Rican blood and describing everything characteristic of
them,  such as a "spigoty: hat, a "spigoty" dollar or a "spigoty" trick. Indeed,
 the Americans now ask one another: "Do you talk spigoty?" or "Can you dance
spigoty?" Road-builder order, "Shovel  in more dirt there, Spigoty";
housewives say, "Some more bread please, Spigoty," and even the natives  themselves,
when in need of an expression of contempt for a fellow being, now  cry
"Spigoty."