split-new, a.
[app. f. split n.1 or v. Cf. Sc. spleet-new.]
Perfectly new, brand-new.
| 1695 J. Sage Presbytery (1697) 246 A split new Democratical Systeme; a very Farce of Novelties. 1800 Monthly Mag. April 239/2 ‘The coat is split new.’ This no doubt is a Scotticism. 1849 Cupples Green Hand xi. (1856) 115, I 'scribes the whole o' my togs as if I'd made 'em,—‘split new,’ says I. |