span-new

[ span-noo, -nyoo ]

adjective

1. brand-new.

span-new

adjective

1. archaic.
   absolutely new

Word History and Origins

Origin of span-new¹

1250–1300; Middle English spannewe < Old Norse spānnȳr brand-new, fresh, equivalent to spānn chip shavings, shingle + nȳr new

Word History and Origins

Origin of span-new¹

C14: from Old Norse spānnӯr, from spānn chip + nӯr new

Example Sentences

He seems to think he is mooting to me a spick and span new idea—that he has invented something.

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He has got a span new suit of blue uniform, all covered with gold buttons, an gold lace an gold shoulder-straps.

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But there were ower mony great folks dipped in the same doings, to mak a spick and span new warld.

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But till't their lordships went wi' as muckle teeth and gude-will, as if the matter had been a' speck and span new.

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She lived for him, and his services, and the bran span new church he had built for himself in the square at the back.

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