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brand-spanking new,
clean,
clean and tidy,
cleaned,
cleaned up,
fresh,
gleaming,
hygienic,
immaculate,
neat,
polished,
pure,
sanitary,
shining,
shipshapeالنطق
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() 1660s (first citation 1665 November 15th, below), from spick-and-span-new (literally “new as a recently made spike and chip of wood”) (1570s), from spick (“nail”) (variant of spike) + Middle English span-new (“very new”) (from circa 1300 until 1800s), from Old Norse span-nyr, from spann (“chip”) (cognate to Old English spón, Modern English spoon, due to old spoons being made of wood) + nyr (“new”) (cognate to Old English nīwe, Modern English new).“” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001 Imitation of Dutch spiksplinter nieuw (literally “spike-splinter new”)The term "" was used to refer to "bran-new tunes" in a Dutch songbook published in 1630 , for a freshly built ship. Observe that fresh woodchips are firm and light (if from light wood), but decay and darken rapidly, hence the origin of the term.