spang-new
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