Definitions for spick-and-span

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Spelling: [spik-uh n-span]
IPA: /ˈspɪk ənˈspæn/

Spick-And-Span is a 14 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 521 anagrams from letters in spick-and-span (--aacdiknnppss).

Definitions for spick-and-span

adverb

  1. in a spick-and-span manner.

adjective

  1. spotlessly clean and neat:
  2. perfectly new; fresh.

Origin of spick-and-span

1570-80; short for spick-and-span-new, alliterative extension of span-new

Examples for spick-and-span

But I looked down at him—spick-and-span and glossy—his neckties are never crooked—and said, yes, he might come at three o'clock.

“I never realised before what a spick-and-span person you were,” she observed.

The spick-and-span occupants of the reception bureau evidently regarded him as Room Number So-and-so.

They were driven by coachmen who, as well as the guards behind, were arrayed in spick-and-span new scarlet and gold.

I doubt if Sir Francis had it all so spick-and-span—for in his day we were very nearly as far from lawn mowers as from turbines.

But give me the sububs and stucco, smart villas, and spick-and-span shops.

The captain looked suspiciously from the two grimy travellers to the spick-and-span Englishmen in golfing costume.

spick-and-span, he might have stepped out of a glass case, and this was his invariable appearance.

Everything was as spick-and-span as the beetles in an entomological case, for Crevel lived very little at home.

But there were ower-mony great folks dipped in the same doings to make a spick-and-span new warld.

Word Value for spick-and-span
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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