SPICK-AND-SPAN


Meaning of SPICK-AND-SPAN in English

/spik"euhn span"/ , adj.

1. spotlessly clean and neat: a spick-and-span kitchen.

2. perfectly new; fresh.

adv.

3. in a spick-and-span manner.

[ 1570-80; short for spick-and-span-new, alliterative extension of SPAN-NEW ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .