span-new

English

Etymology

From Icelandic, properly meaning "as new as a chip just split". Compare spick-and-span.

Adjective

span-new (comparative more span-new, superlative most span-new)

brand new; fire-new
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, James Nichols, editor, The Church History of Britain, […], new edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
  
  A span-new archbishop's chair.

Descendants

→ Welsh: newydd sbon (partial calque)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “span-new”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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