"spiggoty". Oxford English Dictionary (onlineed.). Oxford University Press.(Subscription or participating institution membership required.) citing as an etymology Amer. SpeechXIII. 311/1 (1938) 'Spiggoty' originated in Panama during Construction Days, and is assumed to be a corruption of ‘spikee de’ in the sentence ‘No spikee de English’, which was then the most common response of Panamanians to any question in English.
"spiggoty". Oxford English Dictionary (onlineed.). Oxford University Press.(Subscription or participating institution membership required.) citing as an etymology Amer. SpeechXIII. 311/1 (1938) 'Spiggoty' originated in Panama during Construction Days, and is assumed to be a corruption of ‘spikee de’ in the sentence ‘No spikee de English’, which was then the most common response of Panamanians to any question in English.