brand-new, a.
(ˈbrænd ˈnjuː)
Also bran-new, Sc. brank-, brent-new.
[f. brand n. + new, as if fresh and glowing from the furnace; cf. Shakespeare's fire-new.]
Quite new, perfectly new.
| c 1570 Foxe Serm. 2 Cor. v. 63 New bodies, new minds..and all thinges new, brande-newe. 1714 Gay What d'ye call it? ii. v. 28 ‘Wear these Breeches Tom; they're quite bran-new.’ 1790 Burns Tam o' Shanter, Nae cotillon brent new frae France. 1821 Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 38 When villagers put on their bran-new clothes. 1824 Scott St. Ronan's I. 56 (Jam.) Yeomen with the brank new blues and buckskins. 1858 Carlyle Fredk. Gt. II. vii. iii. 183 The whole Saxon Army..all in beautiful brand-new uniforms. 1871 Morley Voltaire (1886) 131 A bran-new vaudeville. |
Hence in same sense (chiefly dial.) the double forms brand-fire-new, brand-span-new, brand-spander-new. Also brand-newness.
| 1825 Bro. Jonathan I. 151 Bran-fire, noo, as I'm alive. 1830 H. Angelo Remin. I. 57 His feet were thrust into a bran-span new pair of fashionable pumps. 1855 Whitby Gloss., Brandnew, Brandspandernew, fresh from the maker's hands, or ‘spic and span new’. 1870 Hawthorne Eng. Note-bks. (1879) I. 108 This brand-newness makes it seem much less effective. |