Maffick Definition

Origin of Maffick

• After Mafeking , South Africa, town with a British garrison besieged for 217 days during the Boer War whose relief (May 17, 1900) was celebrated in London

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

• Back-formation from Mafeking punningly treated as a present participle, from the celebrations in London after the relief of Mafeking during the Boer War.

  From Wiktionary