span-new

[ span-noo, -nyoo ]

adjective

Origin of span-new

1
1250–1300; Middle English spannewe<Old Norse spānnȳr brand-new, fresh, equivalent to spānn chip shavings, shingle + nȳr new

Words Nearby 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.

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

  • She 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

span-new

adjective
  1. archaic, or dialect absolutely new

Origin of span-new

1
C14: from Old Norse spānnӯr, from spānn chip + nӯr new

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