spick-span a.
abbrev. of spick and span a.
| 1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 40 A wish Spick span from the press on wove foolscap to issue. 1888 Public Opinion (N.Y.) 15 Dec. 197 Their visits to a State's prison have been under the guidance of officials, before whom all is made spick-span. 1894 A. St. Aubyn Orchard Damerel III. ii. 48 It could never have been..clear like spic-span modern glass. |
So spick-span new a.
| 1880 Tennyson Northern Cobbler xix. |