spick-and-span

Englisch - Türkisch

Definition von spick-and-span im Englisch Türkisch wörterbuch

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Banyoyu tertemiz tut. - Keep the bathroom spick-and-span.

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Englisch - Englisch

Definition von spick-and-span im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

Clean, spotless; original sense “like new”

I mopped up the kitchen floor so it was spick-and-span.

completely neat and clean; "the apartment was immaculate"; "in her immaculate white uniform"; "a spick-and-span kitchen"; "their spic red-visored caps"

conspicuously new; "shiny brand-new shoes"; "a spick-and-span novelty"

very clean, spotless, without a stain

{a} quite, entirely, totally, very

A place that is spick and span is very clean and tidy. The apartment was spick and span. spic and span a room, house etc that is spick and span is completely clean and tidy

Synonyme

brand-spanking new, clean, clean and tidy, cleaned, cleaned up, fresh, gleaming, hygienic, immaculate, neat, polished, pure, sanitary, shining, shipshape

Etymologie

() 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.