spick
spick is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A spike or nail. [Prov. Eng.] Spick and span, quite new; that is, as new as a spike or nail just made and a chip just split; brand- new; as, a spick and span novelty. See Span-new. Howell.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- afresh
- ago
- and
- anew
- bene
- brand-new
- daisy
- date
- day
- dictum
- est
- evergreen
- fashion
- fashionable
- fire-new
- fresh
- gloss
- green
- hip
- immature
- immaturity
- innovation
- jam
- just
- late
- lately
- latterly
- long
- minute
- modern
- modernism
- modernize
- mushroom
- nascent
- neoteric
- new
- newly
- newness
- non
- not
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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