spang-new
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English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
spang-new (comparative more spang-new, superlative most spang-new)
- Alternative form of span-new
Scots[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English span-neue. Compare English span-new.
Adjective[edit]
spang-new (not comparable)
- brand new
- 1885, James Lumsden, “Rural Reminiscences”, in Rural Rhymes and Sketches in East Lothian, page 119:
- His weaknesses […] were a too fond love of jewelry and fine dress […] , and eke the petticoated portion of mankind, to whom last he was always as an Endymion spang new from Elysium
- His weaknesses were too much fondness for jewelry and fine dress, and also anyone in petticoats, who always followed him like a brand new Endymion returned from Elysium