span-new
Origin of span-new
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How to use span-new in a sentence
He seems to think he is mooting to me a spick and span new idea—that he has invented something.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonHe has got a span new suit of blue uniform, all covered with gold buttons, an gold lace an gold shoulder-straps.
But there were ower mony great folks dipped in the same doings, to mak a spick and span new warld.
Red Gauntlet | Sir Walter ScottBut till't their lordships went wi' as muckle teeth and gude-will, as if the matter had been a' speck and span new.
Rob Roy, Volume 1., Illustrated | Sir Walter ScottShe lived for him, and his services, and the bran span new church he had built for himself in the square at the back.
Mattie:--A Stray (Vol 3 of 3) | Frederick William Robinson
British Dictionary definitions for span-new
archaic, or dialect absolutely new
Origin of span-new
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