chifferobe 

A closet-like piece of furniture that combines a long space for hanging clothes (that is, a wardrobe or armoire) with a chest of drawers. Chifferobes were first advertised in the 1908 Sears, Roebuck Catalogue, which described them as "a modern invention, having been in use only a short time." The term itself is a portmanteau of the words chiffonier and wardrobe. It is used in the United States, primarily in the southern portion of the country, and in Cuba. Pronounced shif-uh-rohb or shif-rohb. In Spanish as "chief-o-robay."

The word "chifferobe" appears frequently in Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Tom Robinson "busts up a chifferobe" for Mayella Ewell, which her father uses as kindling.

chifferobe by Southern mama September 24, 2011

bust up that chifferobe 

To smack up some booty. In the novel To Kill A Mocking Bird, Tom Robinson is asked to "come in an bust up the chifferobe" for Mayella Ewell. But upon entry into the house, Mayella makes swift sexual advances toward Robinson, hence, bust up that chifferobe means to smack up a fine piece of ass.

"Hey Jim, I saw you leave with that girl. You bust up that chifferobe?"

bust up that chifferobe by BoboFish January 31, 2016

Shiffaroe 

A hard substance (harder than dolemite) that white slavemasters and overseers used to make slaves toil over for endless hours at a time.

Slave 1: Cum own Kunta, let's go own down by 'da river 'n rest a spell.

Slave 2: I kain't. I'zz to busy bustin' up dis Shiffaroe!

Shiffaroe by Knowlege Doctor May 19, 2008

bust up a shifarobe 

Part of a line from "To Kill a Mockingbird". A shifarobe is an old fashioned piece of furniture similar to a wardrobe with drawers like a dresser and a full length cabinet for hanging clothes. "bust up a shifarobe" is slang for when a white girl seeks to engage in interracial sex. In "To Kill a Mockingbird" Tom Robinson's accuser is a white girl who told him if he would come inside and bust up a shifarobe for her she would give him a nickel. Once inside she throws herself on him. Her forbidden attraction discovered by her racist father she is beaten by him but falsely accuses Tom of beating and raping her.

Dawg, I saw you with that white girl at the movies. You "bust up a shifarobe"?

bust up a shifarobe by egonovus May 7, 2009