"spoofy" and "shimming" in Utah, 1919

[Victor Steinbok]

"Spoof" is in OED as noun, adjective and verb, along with "spoofed",
"spoofing" (n. & adj.), "spoofer" and "spoofery", although not all
meanings are covered (I posted on "spoofing" on Feb. 25). "Spiff" (n. &
v.), "spiffing" and "spiffy" are also in current OED on-line.

     VS-)

On 3/6/2011 1:28 PM, George Thompson wrote:
> ...
> Strangely, the OED is trying to tell me that there is no such word as "spoof" -- a bit of prescriptivism that I do not expect from the OED.  The word is in a recent Shorter OED, though, but not with an appropriate meaning, and not "spoofy".
> "Shimming" isn't in the OED, nor "shim"; "shimmy" as a dance is from [1917] and 1918.
> OED is also claiming that there is no such word as "spiffy", though it's in the SOED, 5th ed., 2002.
> ...

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