spick-and-span

短语

a. 崭新的, 新格调的, 极干净的

发音

AU

词形变化

more spick-and-span 比较级 most spick-and-span 最高级

别名

spic and span spick and span

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Clean, spotless.

    习语

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

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 7

brand-new spotless immaculate spic and span bran-new speckless spick

近义相关 2

new clean

词源

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, English spoon, due to spoons once being made of wood) + nyr (“new”) (cognate to Old English nīewe, English new). Imitation of Dutch spiksplinternieuw (literally “spike-splinter new”), 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.

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