smifligate

'smifligate' a very old man with a lantern who accidentally stumbled in her way -- to the great terror of Mrs Nickleby, who, conjecturing more from Mr Pyke's excitement than any previous acquaintance with the etymology of the word that smifligation and bloodshed must be in the main one and the same thing, was alarmed beyond expression, lest something should occur.

Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens 1841