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span-new
[ span-noo, -nyoo ]
span-new
adjective
- archaic.absolutely new
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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
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Word History and Origins
Origin of span-new1
C14: from Old Norse spānnӯr, from spānn chip + nӯr new
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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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